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CASSELL, PETTER, & GALPIN, 

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, 

Bom 1564 ; Died 1616 



THE 

OFFICIAL PROGRAMME 

OF 

The Tercentenary Festival 

of THE BIRTH of 

SHAKESPEARE, 

To be held at Stratford-upon-Avon, 

Commencing on Saturday, April 23, 1864. 
Also, 

An Account of what is known of the Poet's Life : 
a Guide to the Town and Neighbour- 
hood of Stratford-upon-Avon : 

And sundrie other matters just now of publicke interest 
relating thereto. 



AT LONDON: 

Imprinted for Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, at the Belle 

Sauvage, in Ludgate-hill, near Paules Church-yard. 

1864. 






[Note. — The arrangement of the Title Page is in strict accordance 

with the style of typography adopted in the original 

editions of Shakespeare's Plays.] 






WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 



Far from the fun and fummer gale, 

In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, 

What time when lucid Avon ftray'd. 
To him the mighty mother did unveil 

Her awful face. The dauntlefs child 

Stretch'd forth his little arms and fmiPd. 

' This pencil take,' she faid, ' whofe colours clear 

Richly paint the vernal year; 

Thine, too, thofe golden keys, immortal boy : 

This can unlock the gates of joy, 

Of horror that and thrilling fears, 

Or ope the facred fource of fympathetic tears.' " 



IN the detail which it will be neceflary to give of the localities 
connected with Shakeipeare, we ihall have occafion to men- 
tion incidentally fome of the moll prominent fa£ts which conftitute 
his biography — his birth- his fchool days; the hiftrionic bias which 
he acquired whilft yet a ichoolboy ; his youthful indifcretions, real 
or apocryphal ; his courtfhip ; his marriage ; his fuccefs in London ; 
his return to his native town ; his purchafe of New Place ; his 
death there ; his interment in the chancel of the collegiate church ; 
and the honours paid to his memory, not only by his townfmen, 
but by the world of letters. We propofe, therefore, to confine 
ourielves, for the prefent, to a brief narrative — to fupply, in fact, 
the conne6ting links between the events of the poet's life which 
are affociated with the localities it will be our pleafurable talk to 
defcribe, in our character of guide to the town and neighbour- 
hood of Stratford-upon-Avon. 



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The name of Shakefpeare is clearly one of Anglo-Saxon origin, 
and there are many traces of the family to be found fcattered 
over the rural parts of Warwickshire. The very etymology of 
the word leads concluhVely to the opinion that thofe who bore it 
were not of mean or mechanical, but of knightly, defcent. We 
are even informed that John Shakefpeare enjoyed some here- 
ditary eftates in that county, bellowed upon one of his ancestors 
by Henry VII., as a reward for faithful fervices rendered to him 
when plain Earl of Richmond, and efpecially for fuch important 
aid at the fight on Bosworth Field as helped to place upon his 
brow the crown of the Plantagenets. It is not likely that a 
man of no note could — efpecially at a time when the fpirit of 
feudalism had not by any means expired, and the lord ab- 
forbed all the merits of the vaifal — have had an opportunity of 
fo recommending himfelf to a perfon of fuch high rank as 
Richmond, a candidate for royalty. Indeed, we are told that 
the common anceftors of this partifan of the first Tudor, and 
of the poet, had been long " in good reputation and credit." 
The municipal records of Stratford fpeak of John Shakefpeare, 
the poet's father, as "a gentleman of good figure and fafhion;" 
and the fa6ts that he ferved the office of High Bailiff of the 
Borough — an office analogous to that of Mayor — and was in 
the commiffion of the peace, confirm this reprefentation of his 
focial pofition. 

It is idle, therefore, to fpeak of him as having been either 
a butcher or a woolfiapler, or to endeavour to ihow that he 
may have fold both meat and wool without having been 
of either one or the other calling. Indeed, there is not an iota 
of evidence in favour of the accuracy of the report which repre- 
fents him to have been a Knight of the Shambles, and the fole 
evidence in fupport of the woolfiapler reprefentation is that a 
device of the arms of the Woolftaplers Company was found fixed 
into one of the windows in the houfe in Henley Street. A little 
local knowledge of Stratford would have fhown thofe who fiarted 
this theory — a theory so inconfiderately taken up and generally be- 
lieved in — how unreliable it is. At the time when John Shake- 
fpeare refided in Henley Street, the people of Stratford, who are 
now fo proud of their fellowfhip as townfmen with his illufirious 



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son, were equally proud of the fame relationship between them and 
Sir Hugh Clopton, who had reached the dignity of Lord Mayor 
of London — an office the magnificence of which is, even now, in 
die country parts of England, confidered fecond only to that of 
royalty. 

Sir Hugh Clopton is defcribed in the records at Guildhall 
as citizen and woolfiapler ; and there can be little doubt 
that the heraldic infignia of the illufirious knight were then as 
eagerly fought for and as highly prized as, at the present 
day, are the bufts, photographs, and other fouvenirs of the 
poet; and this will account for the prefence of the copy of 
the woolitapler's arms in the houfe of John Shakefpeare. This 
John Shakefpeare, too, be it remembered, married the daughter 
and heir of Robert Arden, a gentleman of an ancient and honour- 
able family, then fettled at Wilmecote, a ihort diftance from 
Stratford, and numbered among the gentry of Warwicklhire as 
early as the reign of Henry VI. Edward Arden — who, if not the 
brother of Mary, the wife of this John, mull certainly have been 
fome very near relative — was High Sheriff of the county the very 
year preceding that in which her hufband filled the civic chair in 
the borough of Stratford. It lhould alio be remembered that 
the family of Shakefpeare was entitled to bear arms, and that at 
that time the Heralds' College had not nurfed its generation of 
lions rampant, nor had it manufactured its fupply of hands and 
daggers. Thefe are facts which go still farther to prove that thofe 
who afcribe a low focial pofition to the father of our great 
dramatift, have no sufficient authority for doing fo. It appears, 
however, that in after life he fell into misfortune, was excufed a 
trifling tax, and is accufed of abfenting himfelf from the Council 
Chamber and from church on account of his being in debt.* 

"William, the eldeft of bis ten children, was undoubtedly 
educated in the Free Grammar School of King Edward VI., 
then prefided over by a worthy fcholar of the name of Hunt ; and 
Ben Jonfon s fneer, that he had "little Latin and lefs Greek," 
mull be taken with fome referve, for, notwithstanding all his rare 
qualities, " Rare Ben " was, we will not fay envious, but a little 

* The law which gives protection on Sundays to debtors dates only 
from the reign of William and Mary. 



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jealous of the halo which ihone around his brother bard. In this 
bufy age of commerce, when a child is lent to earn its own 
livelihood whilit its frame is yet more cartilage than bone, it cannot 
be conceived that Shakefpeare could have been allowed, after he 
left fchool, to grow to man's eftate without having been put to 
work at fome acfive employment ; and there are numberlefs 
theories as to what the nature of that employment may have 
been ; yet it is not improbable, looking to the circumftances of the 
time, that he fauntered about the town and neighbourhood, build- 
ing catties in the air, and, left thus to himfelf and his meditations, 
fell irrehTtibly in love with Ann Hathaway, a paflion of which, and 
of its confequences, we shall have to speak when calling attention 
to the old cottage at Shottery. It was, too, this idle habit of life 
which led him to break the park, either of Fulbroke or Charlecote, 
and fo incur the active difpleafure of Sir Thomas Lucy. The 
late Lord Chancellor, Lord Campbell, however, taking the idea 
from Walter Savage Landor, has written a work to prove that he 
rauft have been an attorney's clerk, becaufe his works lhow him 
to have been thoroughly converfant, not only with the theory, 
but with the acfual practice of the law ; but the Archbishop of 
Canterbury would find as much in the fame repertory as would 
juftify him in arguing that the great dramatist must have, in con- 
templation of being ordained, lmdied fchool divinity 5* and the 
President of the College of Phyiicians might, with equal succefs, 
(how that he mull: have been a medical ftudent. Has he not 
actually anticipated Harvey in discovering the circulation of the 
blood ? Our own opinion is, that he was neither one nor the 
other, but that his mind polfeiled fuch a wonderful power of aflimi- 
lation, that he was able to make the experience and knowledge of 
every perfon with whom he was brought into contact his own. 

It was in 1582 that he became a married man, and it was the 
refponhbility which he fo incurred that induced him to follow the 
Jmrbages and Greene to London, and there embrace the calling 
of a player as one of Her Majesty's Company. In this pofition 
his admirable wit, and the natural turn of it to the rtage, foon, to 

* Since this was written there has appeared in the public papers an 
announcement to the effecl: that the Right Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, 
Bishop of St. Andrews, has in the prefs a work of this character j 



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quote the words of Wilder, " diftinguished him, if not as' an 
extraordinary actor, yet as an excellent writer; and the people ot 
his age, who began to grow wonderfully fond of diveriions of 
this kind, could not but be highly pleafed to fee a genius arife 
amongft them of so pleafurable, so rich a vein, and fo plentifully 
capable of furnilhing their favourite entertainment. Play Houfe 
Yard, which lies at the rear of the offices of the Times news- 
paper in Blackfriars, still marks the fpot on which he made his 
debut; and, although Shakefpeare the actor was doubtlefs a lefs. 
important perfon than Shakefpeare the dramatift, ftill it is difficult 
to believe that he was, as an actor, altogether fo great a failure as to 
juftify the criticifm palfed upon him by a lefs fuccefsful caterer for 
the amufement of the public, who malevolently fpeaks of him to 
other members of the company as " an upftart crow, beautified 
with our feathers — (here the fpirit of Sir Fretful Plagiary finds 
full vent) ; that, with his tygre's heart wrapt in a player's hyde, sup- 
pofes he is as well able to bombaft out a blank verfe as the bell of 
you; and, being an abfolute Johannes faclotum, is, in his own 
conceypt the only lhake fcene in a country.' 

There has been a critic who took upon himfelf to make a 
chronological arrangement of the odes of Horace ; but no one 
has, as yet, lucceeded in eftablishing the order in which the in- 
comparable dramas of the Englilh Sophocles were fubmitted to 
the public, and the only hint we have upon the fubject is con- 
tained in a doggrel diftich of Dryden's : 

" Shakfpeare's own mufe his Pericles first bore, 
The Prince of Tyre was elder than the Moor." 

In other words, "Pericles" was the firff. and "Othello" the laft 
of his works ; but beyond this, all is conjecture, fave that we 
know that "Romeo and Juliet" and "Richard III." were 
printed in 1597. No matter, however, in what particular order 
they may have appeared, they were not only highly fuccefsful, 
but attracted towards their author the patronage of royalty and 
the friendihip of the Maecenas of the day, the Earl of Southamp- 
ton, to whom he dedicated his poem of "Venus and Adonis," 
and his " Rape of Lucrece," and who, in a rare fpirit of munifi- 
cence, once gave him a thoufand pounds to complete a purchafe 



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which he had in view. It is certain that Elizabeth had feveral 
of the plays performed before her in Wolfey's Gallery, at 
Hampton Court, and ftamped them with her approval, before 
they were placed upon the ftage for public admiration ; and it is 
alio certain that the " Merry Wives of Windfor" was written at 
her fuggeftion, that the might fee Falftaff in the phafe of a lover. 
Her succeifor, the pedant pupil of Buchanan, was alio a warm 
patron of the poet's, a facf of which we are thus informed in 
Lintot's edition : — " That moft learned prince and great patron 
of learning, King James the Firft, was pleafed with his own 
hand to write an amicable letter to Mr. Shakefpeare, which letter, 
though now loft, Sir Wm. D'Avenant, as a credible person now 
living, can teftify." It is honourable to the memory of Shake- 
speare that, fo far as he is concerned, the "Quarrels of Authors" 
might have remained a virgin page, for he was, as a dramatift, free 
from all little jealousies and envy. Indeed, it was his difcrimi- 
nation which gave Ben Jonfon the firft opportunity of lhowing 
to the world that he too was a genius. 

Shakefpeare, however, was not only author and acfor, he was 
alio a theatrical manager, and, as part proprietor of a theatre, 
accumulated a competency. His name appears in a peti- 
tion which the proprietors and players of the Blackfriars 
Theatre addreifed, in 1^99, to the Privy Council, for leave to re- 
build that place of entertainment, which had fallen into dif- 
repair. In the firft year of the reign of King James I., he 
obtained a patent for playing at the Globe Theatre — on the 
Bankiide — in fummer, and at the Blackfriars Theatre in the 
winter. Three years later, when the Corporation of London 
propofed to buy up the Blackfriars Theatre as a nuifance, he is 
faid to have aiked a^oo f° r the wardrobe and properties, and 
for his ihares in the eftabliihment. 

The latter part of Shakefpeare' s life was fpent at his native 
place, Stratford-upon-Avon, after he purchaied the Great Houfe, 
and repaired and -modelled it to his own mind. During his reii- 
dence here, his pleafurable wit and good nature are faid to have 
won for him the friendihip of the gentlemen in the neighbour- 
hood • and if we are to credit what is told us in the " Spiritual 
Quixote," he ufed to amufe himfelf in joking with his townfmen, 



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and was extremely fond of creating fan at the expenfe of fome 
one or other of them, for the amufement of the others, after the 
fashion so generally adopted on the ifl of April. This defcrip- 
tion of humour, known among fchoolboys as a " fell," is per- 
fectly harmlefs, and has, at leaft, the recommendation of being 
homely. He did not, however, in his country retirement, give 
himfelf up to inglorious eafe. On the contrary, he continued to 
write for theftage until 1614, and occaiionally viiited London with 
the offspring of his genius. Two years later, on the 23rd of 
April, the anniverfary of his birth, he paffed from this to a better 
world. It is often remarked, as an extraordinary coincidence, 
that the illustrious Cervantes died on the fame day. This, how- 
ever, is not the fa6t. When it is remembered that one date is 
reckoned by the old style and the other by the new, it will be 
understood that, although the nominal date is the fame, Shake- 
fpeare furvived Cervantes ten days. 

Shakefpeare in his will, dated a month before his death, left 
the bulk of his property to his eldest daughter, and legacies and 
bequests to other members of his family. This document, which 
consists of three meets of brief paper, has been carefully cleaned 
by order of the new Judge of the Court of Probate, is now pro- 
tected by means of glazed frames, constructed fo as to prevent the 
admiffion of air, and may, with the permiffion of the judge, be 
photographed. 

It is unneceffary here to state more than that his wife furvived 
him for the fpace of eight years, and now.refts by his fide in the 
collegiate church. There, too, repofe their three children — Hamet, 
Mrs. Hall, and Mrs. Quency ; and it may be further mentioned 
that with Mrs. Hall's daughter Elizabeth died the lafl of the 
poet's defcendants. 

" Manibus date lilia plenis 

Purpureos spargam flores 

et fungar inani 

Munere." 

Thomas Carlyle, in his " Heroes and Hero Worfhip," pays the 
following characferiftic tribute to the merits of the poet of all 
time : — 



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Which Englishman we ever made in this land of ours, which millions 
of Englishmen, would we not give up rather than this Stratford peafant?* 
There is no regiment of highest dignitaries that we would not fell for 
him. He is the grandest thing we have yet done. For our honour 
among foreign nations, as an ornament to an English houfehold, what 
item is there which we would not furrender rather than him ? Consider, 
now, if they afked us, Will you give up your Indian Empire or your 
Shakefpeare ? you, English, never have had an Indian Empire, or 
never have had a Shakefpeare. Really, it were a grave question. 
Official perfons would doubtlefs answer in official language; but we, for 
our part, should not fo be found to anfwer. Indian Empire — no Indian 
Empire: we cannot do without Shakefpeare: Indian Empire will go, 
at any rate fome day; but then Shakefpeare does not go — he lasts for- 
ever with us. We cannot give up Shakefpeare. 



* There was no necessity thus to lower the position of the bard, 
preference here given him appear greater. 



i order to make the 




STRATFORD-UPON-AVON: 

Where it is, and how it is to be reached. 



STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, which enjoys a degree of glory- 
equal to that for which feven cities of old contended, lies 
on the fouth-weft border of Warwicklhire. It is beautifully 
iituated on that river from which it derives a portion of its name 
— a river alike glorious in the literary and civil hiftory of the 
country ■ for on its banks were fought the battles of Eveiham 
and of Nafeby, and from its ftream was taken the water em- 
ployed in the giving of that name which is, and ever will be, 
the ehiefeft on the roll of genius. 

" Yes, there are hearts prophetic, hope may trust, 
That slumber yet in uncreated dust, 
Ordained to fire the daring tons of earth 
With every charm of wifdom and of worth. 
Ordained to light with intellectual day 
The mazy wheels of Nature as they play ; 
Or warm with Fancy's energy to glow, 
And rival all but Shakefpeare here below." 

The town itfelf Hands on one of the old military roads con- 
ftrucled by the Romans during their occupation of the country ; 
but coming down to later times, it may be mentioned that in 
the days of coaching it was a ftage upon the route from London 
to Holyhead. The principal accefs to it now, however, is by 
rail. Vintors from London and the eaitern counties can reach 
it either by the trains of the Great Weftern, or by thole of the 
London and North Weftern Company, via Leamington. The 
Great Weftern Company can alio accommodate the fou'th- 
weftern and weftern diftriefs, and carry to the home of Shake- 
speare the inhabitants of Wilts, Dorfet, Devon, &c. &c. Thole 



Stratford-upon-Avon. 15 



relident in the iouth of the principality can travel by the New- 
port and Hereford line, and lb on to the Well Midland line at 
Worceller, from which city there will be fpecial trains to Strat- 
ford. Thefe trains will alio accommodate travellers by the 
Midland Railway from Brillol ; but thole coming on that line 
from the north can at once proceed to Hatton junction, or on 
reaching Tamworth, take the route of the London and North 
Weftern Company by Nuneaton and Coventry to Leamington. 
The Irilh admirers of the bard who may wilh to attend the 
commemoration, lhould they land either at Fleetwood or at 
Liverpool, will lind it bell to crols the Merfey to Birkenhead, 
and travel thence through Birmingham to Stratford. The fame 
trains on reaching Cheller will accommodate thole of their 
countrymen 'who may arrive at that city from Kingftown via 
Holyhead. The accefs from Brillol, as already explained, is the 
route to be taken by paflengers from the ports of Waterford and 
Cork. 

Having thus pointed out the moll convenient means by 
which travellers from all parts of the kingdom may find their 
way to the commemoration, the next thing to be done is to 
explain to them how they are to be lodged on arriving at their 
deftination. It mull be obvious that, however abundant and 
excellent on ordinary occaiions may be the amount of hotel 
accommodation in Stratford, it cannot be lufficient to meet the 
demands which fuch a gathering as the Tercentenary Fellival of 
the birth of Shakelpeare is likely to bring to his native town. The 
principal hotels are the "Red Horfe," the "Shakelpeare," and the 
"Falcon." There are, too, feveral excellent inns, as the " Golden 
Lion" and the "Garrick," and in all about thirty houfes of enter- 
tainment. As thefe latter, however, are not of a clals fuited to 
the reception of thofe who may be expefted to attend the com- 
memoration, there remains a great want to be fupplied. This 

EXPLANATION OF PLAN OF STRATFORD-UPON-AVON. 



A Shakespeare's Birthplace. ' speare died, now used for 

B Market Hall and proposed 1 Festival Ticket Office. 

Site for Monumental ' E Shakespeare Rooms. 



Memorial. 
C Town Hall. 
D The Site of New Place, 

or House where Shake- 



F Guild Chapel. 

G Church. 

H Railway Station, Alcester 

Road, for Worcester, &c. 



/ Railway Station, Birming- 
ham Road, for Birming- 
ham, Leamington, &c. 

A" Church Street, Approach 
to Pavilion. 

L Festival Pavilion. 



16 Stratford-upon-Avon. 



want will be in fome meafure met by the proprietors of private 
houfes accommodating the public with lodgings, and this local 
.accommodation, as on the occaiion of the Garrick Jubilee, 
will be fupplemented by the hotels and private lodging 
houfes in Warwick, Leamington, and other neighbouring 
towns, to which fpecial trains will be difpatched at the clofe 
of each day's entertainments, and return in time for the 
commencement of thofe of the fucceeding day. For the 
•convenience of the public, a regiilration office has been opened 
under the fuperintendence of the local committee, at which 
ftrangers will be able to procure whatever apartments they may 
require. A ftrong body of the county police will be ftationed in 
the theatre during the week, to guard the vihtors from the leger- 
demain of the fraternity of Autolycus. The fpecial train arrange- 
ments are detailed in our advertiiing pages. It may, however, be 
mentioned that the Great Weltern Company have entered into 
fpecial arrangements with the London and North Weftern Com- 
pany and the Midland Railway Company, to book through to 
Stratford-upon-Avon, from the principal ilations on their lines, 
.allowing the same exteniion of time for return tickets. 




PLACES TO BE SEEN. 



ALTHOUGH the town and the country furrounding it are 
full of objects of hiftorical intereft, the places connected 
with the life of Shakefpeare are thole which, on an occalion like 
this, claim the firll notice of the vifitor — the houfe in which he 
was born, the fchool-room in which he received his education, 
the cottage in which he wooed and won his wife, the home 
which he felect ed for his old age, and the facred edifice in which 
his alhes reft. 

SHAKESPEARE'S HOUSE. 

Shakefpeare's Houfe, as his birth-place is called, is fituated in 
Henley Street, and is at once recognifable, for its appearance has, 
by the pencil and graver of the artift, been rendered as familiar to 
the public as is that of the grand, maiiive, and thoughtful head of 
the bard himfelf, and is, indeed, a relic worthy of being preferved 
by a nation grateful for the perpetuation and enrichment of its lan- 
guage. Nay, even the elements have, as in homage of genius, 
fpared it from deftrucfion; for, although the town has been 
twice devaluated by fire fince that eventful day now to be com- 
memorated, Shakefpeare's Houfe efcaped unfcathed from the 
conflagrations. At the time of the lall jubilee, which Garrick, 
as the High Prieft alike'of Thalia and Melpomene, conducted, in 
honour of their moll infpired bard, a portion of this houfe was, 
as appears from an old engraving, a tavern, and called the " Swan 
and Maidenhead." It is now the appropriate mufeum of Shake- 
fpearian relics, among which are his fignet ring, the defk to which 
he ufed to repair unwillingly, with fhining morning face, when 
a pupil at the free grammar fchool : the pleadings in a fiiit in 
which he was engaged, and the indenture of his purchafe of 
New Place. Here, too, is the old fignboard of the "Falcon" at 
Bidford, where, as tradition goes, the bard and his townfmen 
once engaged in a toping tournament with the hard-drinking 

B 



Shakespeare s House. 



fons of that village, and got worfted in the conteft. There are 
alfo here other fouvenirs of that Bacchanalian frolic, which 
ftrongly reminds one of the conteft for the whiffle of Loda. 

" A bard was selected to witness the fray, 
And tell future ages the feats of the day ; 
A bard who detested all sadness and spleen, 
And wished that Parnassus a vineyard had been." 

The bard, however, as the ftory goes, was fo overpowered, not 
with the juice of the grape, but with "jolly good ale and old," 
that he had to lie down on the roadfide under the fhade of a 
crab tree, and there fleep off his drunken bout. 

" Men's evil manners live in brass, 
Their virtues we write in water ;" 

and in that fpirit — for it could not be out of refpecf for the 
memory of the man — fome perfons have been illnatured enough 
to perpetuate the ftory, apocryphal in itfelf, by preferving pieces 
of the crab tree both in block and in manufacture. There is 
alfo in this mufeum a baffo-relievo model illuftrative of the fame 
piece of fcandal, which, with very queftionable tafte, had been 
intended for a mantelpiece, which was to have been put up in 
one of the rooms in Blenheim. It is related of him that when 
he awoke he lathed his rivals in the following epigram, they 
being natives of the places mentioned in it : — 

" Piping Pebvvorth, dancing Marston, 
Haunted Hillboro, hungry Grafton, 
Dodging Exhall, papist Wixford, 
Beggarly Broom, and drunken Bidford." 

Thele villages lie in a circle, of which the crab tree may be sup- 
pofed to have been the centre, and may, notwithstanding the 
grave doubt which exifts of the accuracy of the ftory, be vifited 
with intereft on the prefent occafion. There are fome perfons 
who think that it is to this incident we are indebted for the pre- 
lude to the " Taming of the Shrew," and the fun of Chriito- 
pher Sly's double transformation. However, be the legend of 
the crab tree true or falfe, there is no doubt with refpect to the 
mulberry tree which he planted. It has now, however, entirely 
difappeared ; but there is fcarcely a garden in the town which is 



Site for the Memorial. 



not graced with one lineally defcended from it, and the fnuff- 
boxes and other articles in the mufeum, manufactured out of the 
timber of the original, are far more pleating to be contem- 
plated than are thofe articles made out of that crab tree of four 
reminifcence. 

Leaving Henley Street, and croffing the Bridge Street, the vifitor 
enters 

HIGH STREET, 

a noble thoroughfare leading to New Place ; but, as he 
crolfes he ought to paufe a moment to gaze upon a round- 
fronted building, which is the present borough Market House. 
The lite on which this firucture Hands was in olden times occupied 
by the Market Crofs, which equalled in beauty thofe in Chichefter 
and Malmeibury. It has, however, long fmce difappeared, and its 
succeffor, the Market Houfe, is about to follow it, to make way 
for the National Memorial to Shakefpeare. The lite is not, 
indeed, fo fine as that graced by the ftatue of Erafmus, at Rot- 
terdam ; but Hill, as will be feen by the subjoined extract from 
the report of the Committee of Selection, is not by any means 
an inappropriate polition for the National Memorial : — ■ 

The Bridge Street site feems to your Sub-Committee to unite all the 
conditions required. It is eminently central, being situate at the inter- 
section of four of the principal streets of the town. 

It is the most accessible point in Stratford-on-Avon. A memorial 
placed there would satisfy all the conditions of effect, being approached 
in front by a gradual afcent, along the broad fpace of Bridge Street,, 
with side views from both east and west, while at the back it might be 
combined with the Market Houfe which would have to be fubstituted 
for the prefent one, should this site be appropriated to the Memorial. 

Your Sub-Committee believe that every aid towards the acquisition 
of this site might be expected from the corporation, and from the owners, 
of most of the property between the Market House and the lane from 
Wood Street to Henley Street, all which would have to be demolished. 

On the fpace thus cleared might be erected an elegant and effective 
loggia (in the Elizabethan style, with terracotta ornamentation), of from 
fifty to sixty feet long, by twenty-five to thirty feet wide. In its rear 
there would be room for a new Market Houfe, which might be made to 
harmonife in design with the Memorial. Into the details of the design 
your Sub-Committee do not consider it within their prefent province 
to enter: they would only fubmit that there is nothing irreverent or 



Town Hall. 



inappropriate in placing the Memorial of Shakefpeare in the midst or 
the bustle of Stratford market. Indeed, fuch a place feems singu- 
larly fuitable to fuch a purpofe. Not only is the art of Shakefpeare 
eminent for its healthy humanity and its intenfe sympathy with the 
realities of life, but the man himself was content to retire from the 
capital to his quiet native town, to set himself down among his school- 
fellows, early acquaintance, and neighbours, to cultivate his own land, 
sell his own beeves and sheep, wool, wheat, and malt, in the very 
market to be a commonplace burgess of Stratford-on-Avon, while he 
was giving every year some immortal play to the world. 

A Stratford-on-Avon Memorial, we think, may well symbolise 
both sides of this double existence. We would wish to see his statue 
here, surrounded on the one hand with illustrations of the marvellous 
creations of his mind, on the other with the everyday life and business 
of the town, at its busiest. 

The site we have indicated is the only one which admits of the 
realisation of this idea, while it satisfies all the other conditions re- 
quired for such a memorial as we contemplate. 

At a meeting of the Committee, held March 2nd, 1864, on the 
motion of A. H. Layard, M.P., seconded by C. Buxton, M.P., this 
report was adopted. 

A certain proportion of whatever profits may accrue from the 
commemoration will be devoted towards defraying the coft of 
this work of art. 

TOWN HALL. 

Palling down the High Street, the firft object that attracts 
notice is a houfe to the right, highly decorated with oak 
carving, now in the occupation of a glover, and which may be 
taken as a favourable fpecimen of the houfe architecture of Strat- 
ford at the time of the birth of the poet, and prior to the ravages 
of those deftructive conflagrations already referred to. On the 
left is the Town Hall, inaugurated by Garrick on the occaiion 
of the laft jubilee. This building, which is in the Tufcan 
order, has been re-decorated for the prefent occafion. Over the 
entrance is a ftatue of Shakefpeare, a copy of that in Weftminller 
Abbey, prefented to the Corporation of Stratford by that in- 
imitable aftor, who was probably the moft accurate interpreter of 
the works of their illuflrious fellow-townfman that ever graced the 
llage. The council room is adorned with feveral elegant paintings, 
and among them are the portraits of both thefe worthies — that of 



New Place. 



the poet by Wilfon and' that of the actor by Gainiborough, both 
being the gifts of Garriek to the Corporation of Stratford. A 
collection of paintings connected with Shakefpeare and his works, 
generoufly lent for the purpofe by the proprietors, will be exhi- 
bited in this hall, and is likely to prove one of the moft attractive 
features of the commemoration. 

NEW PLACE. 
Farther on, upon the fame fide of the ftreet, is the fite of New 
Place, the houfe in which the great mailer of the human heart 
breathed his laft — 

"Where the last accents faltered on his tongue." 
Shakefpeare, no doubt, when carried along in the buftle of 
London life, ever felt, like Goldfmith, a defire to return to his 
native place. 

" I still had hopes, my long vexations past, 
Here to return, and die at home at last" — 

an afpiration which, unlike poor Goldy, he was fortunately able 
to realife ; for lb foon as he became a man of worldly means, he 
returned to Stratford, purchafed thefe premifes — then known as 
the "Great Houfe," and the moft impoiing edifice in the town — 
from the Clopton family, named the manfion "New Place," and 
there fpent the laft feven years of his life. It was in the gardens 
attached to this mansion he planted the world-famed mulberry 
tree. It is fad to relate that this property having, in courfe of 
time, pafled into the pofleffion of a clergyman named Gaftrell, 
that Goth, deferring all the ignominy heaped upon the me- 
mory of Zoilus — who was the firft infidel as regards the indivi- 
duality of Homer — rooted up the tree, to rid himfelf of the 
importunities of thole who, on vifiting the town, wilhed to behold 
an object fo intereftingly connected with the man who has made 
the name of Stratford-upon-Avon a houfehold word wherever the 
Englifh language is, or ever will be fpoken. This Gaftrell, too, 
that he might efcape from the payment of a paltry parochial rate, 
had the barbarity to pull down the houfe itfelf. If the Church has 
among her ceremonies any ceremony oppofite to canonifation which 
might carry excommunication beyond the grave, and perpetuate 
the infamy of the facrilegious, fhe ought to have long fince exer- 



Tne Grammar Scnool. 23 

cifed it in refpect of the Rev. Mr. Gaftrell — (what a profanation 
of the word reverend .') — and placed his name the firit upon the 
calendar of obloquy. The foundations, however, which ihow 
the ground-plan of the building, have been lately brought to 
light, and in a well within this area, which probably iupplied the 
family with water for culinary purpofes, was found an extra- 
ordinary looking old candleftick, at prefent in the Mufeum in 
Henley Street, and which may, perhaps, have been a portion of 
the poet's houfehold furniture. The gardens in which the 
poet breathed the incenfe of nature are at prefent disfigured 
and intruded upon by an ugly-looking building, which is one 
day a theatre, another a ' concert-room, again a county court, 
and is to be during the commemoration, as already mentioned, a 
police-barrack. Here, too, on Wednefday, the 27th, will 
be given a Shakefpearian reading ; and here, on the fol- 
lowing day, will be a concert of inftrumental mufic and 
glees from Shakefpeare's plays. However, notwithftanding the 
prefent unattractive appearance of thefe gardens, they flill mull 
be regarded with intereft by every peribn poiTelfed of the 
smallest portion of that feeling — be it enthufiafm, or be it fome 
fpecies of idolatry — which leads men to contemplate with re- 
verence all that is locally connected with men of illuftrious and 
tranfcendent genius. The man who could look upon the ruins 
of the Parthenon and not feel himfelf in the fociety of its 
illuftrious founder — who could not, when ftanding in the Cow 
Market at Rome, diflociate it from everything connected with 
degradation, and dilapidation, and, in fancy, re-people it with 
togaed citizens, and feel with them the influence of the oratory 
of Cicero ; or who could with indifference pafs among the fcenes 
aflbciated with the name of Shakefpeare — that man is worfe, and 
far more dangerous, than 

" The man who hath no music in himself." 

THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 

Leaving New Place, and palling by the ancient Chapel of the 

Guild of the Holy Crofs, the vifitor will obferve, on the fame 

fide of the way, a row of venerable -looking houfes. One of 

thefe is the Free Grammar School in which Shakefpeare was 



24 The Church. 



educated, and the others are the Almihoufes founded by that 
fraternity. The fchool itfelf was founded in the reign of 
Henry VI. by a worthy prieft of the name of Jolepe, fo that it 
enjoys as old a foundation as that of Eton. At the general diflb- 
lution of religious eftablilhments in the reign of Henry VIII., 
the fcanty revenues of this fchool were, with everything elfe 
which appertained to the Guild, confifcated to the Crown, but 
were reftored by his fon, Edward VI., in July, 1553, a few days 
before his death. The new foundation of the fchool was, there- 
fore, about eleven years old at the birth of the poet. The fchool- 
room is over the entrance hall, which, be it remembered, was the 
hall of the ancient guild already mentioned, and ufed to be, in 
the youthful days of Shakefpeare, the theatre in which the players 
of the time were wont to perform their " Myfteries " — dramas 
founded upon fcriptural fubjecls ; fo that it may reafonably be 
conjectured, that if in the fchool-room he got acquainted with 
Greek and Latin literature — a fact which has been queltioned, 
but of which there is fufficient internal evidence in his works — it 
was in this hall he firft imbibed a tafte for the ftage. The deik 
of the glorious alumnus has been, as already mentioned, carried 
to the Mufeum, to fave it from mutilation at the hands of thole 
devotees who wilhed to embalm fragments of a relic fo interelt- 
ing. It is the intention of the Committee of the commemora- 
tion to appropriate a portion of the profits of the fete to the 
enlargement of the fcope of this fchool, and to the foundation, 
at the Univerlities, of fcholarlhips connected with it. 

THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY. 

The collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity, where repofe all 
that is mortal of Shakefpeare, is the next object which claims our 
attention, and furely there is fomething about it which irreliftibly 
leads the fpectator to think that the architect and founders of the 
ftructure mull have had in contemplation the glory which was in 
ftore for it. The beauty of the building itfelf, and, above all, 
the magnificence of the lite, laved by the foft-flowing Avon — 
there is poetry in the very landfcape — mark it out as a fane 
worthy the baptifm, worthy the fepulture, of a bard. 

It is generally believed that a heathen temple, in the days of 



The Church. 




CHURCH OF THE HOLT TRINIT7. 



Paganifm, flood upon the fame fite, and, if that be true, it muft 
have been one dedicated to the Naid of the ftream. The date 
of the building of the prefent church is not exacfly known, but 
it is probably an inheritance left to his townfmen by John De 
Stratford, Archbiihop of Canterbury, and feveral times, during 
the reign of Edward III., Lord High Chancellor of England. 
The tower and tranfept may have been conilrucfed at an earlier 
period, as thefe portions of the building are -in the tranfition 
ityle, whereas the perpendicular Gothic prevails elfewhere 
throughout the building, which is a cruciform ftrucfure. The 
fpire is completely modern. The organ is now placed in the 
north tranfept, and the fouth tranfept is ufed as a veftry. 
Here, in the muniment cheft, is the pariih regiftry, bound in 
vellum, wherein, under the date of April 26th, 1564, is entered 
the record of the baptifm of William, fon of John Shakefpeare, 



16 Shakespeare s Monument. 

and dole by is the identical font at which he was, by the myftery 
of that sacrament, admitted a member of the Chriilian Church. 
The Rev. John Bracegirdle was then Warden of the college, and 
it is probable that he was the officiating prielt at the rite : thus 
early did the names of Bracegirdle and Shakefpeare became 
aifociated. The fame book, under the date of April 25th, 1616, 
records his interment during the wardenfhip of the Rev. John 
Rogers. The place of his fepulture is on the north tide of the 
chancel, which is feparated from the choir by a rood fcreen. 
This portion of the building owes its exiltence to the piety and 
munificence of the Very Rev. Dean Ballhall, who was inftituted 
Warden in 1465. On the fouth fide of it formerly flood a 
charnel houfe, which ferved as the common receptacle of all the 
bones dug out of the churchyard on the making of each new 
grave. This Golgotha mull have been a fight shocking to 
humanity, and no doubt fo arfecf ed the mind of Shakefpeare when 
he wrote, for infcription on his tombllone — 

" Good frend, for Jesus' sake forbeare 
To digg the dust encloased heare ; 
Bleste be ye man yt spare thes stones, 
And curst be he yt moves my bones!" — 

an anathema which has deterred thofe who might otherwife have 
had his remains removed to Weilminlter Abbey, there to be 
huddled among!! thofe of kings, from carrying out their contem- 
plated facrilege. His monument is fitted into the wall at the 
height of about five feet from the ground, and was put up about 
feven years after his death. He is reprefented in the attitude of 
infpiration. His right hand holds a pen, and his left refls upon 
a fcroll which lies upon a culhion. It was the opinion of Sir 
Francis Chantrey, when he examined this bull, that it had been 
fculptured from a poflhumous call of his countenance, as one side 
of the face is larger than the other. It is placed under an arch- 
way, between two black marble pillars of the Corinthian order, 
having gilded bales and capitals. They fupport the entablature 
on which are carved the arms of the Shakefpeare family. Or, 
on a lend fable, a 'tilting-fpear of the firjl, point upwards, headed 
argent. Crest: A Falcon difp/ayed, argent, fupporting a fpear 



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THE MONUMENTAL BUST. 



Shakespeare s Monument. 



in pale or. It is furmounted by a death's head, and on 
each fide is a fmall figure in a fitting pofiture, one holding 
a fpade, and the other, whole eyes are clofed, an inverted 
torch, as emblematic of the light which had let in the grave. 
The bull is coloured to referable life, in accordance with 
the chromatic syftem which prevailed in the fculpture of Greece 
and Rome. The eyes are of a light hazel colour ; the hair and 
beard are auburn. The dreis confifts of a fcarlet doublet, over 
which is a loofe black gown, without lleeves. Some years ago, 
when the miftaken idea prevailed that fculpture, to be claflical, 
muff, be pure, limple, and unadorned, Mr. Malone, the cele- 
brated commentator, had the figure whitened over • but fo foon 
as recent difcoveries exploded fuch a falfe canon of tafte, the 
admirers of Shakefpeare very properly had the over-coating of 
white removed, and brought out the original colouring unharmed 
from the procefs of cleanfing. There are two infcriptions on a 
flab beneath the bull, one in Latin hexameters, the other in 
Englifh. The firft is as follows : — 

" Judicio Pylivm, genio Socratem, arte Maronem, 
Terra tegit, popvlvs mceret, Olympvs habet." 

("The earth covers, mankind mourns, Olympus holds, a Nestor in 
clearness of intellect, a Socrates in intuitive talent, a Virgil in ele- 
gance of style.") 

The Englifh lines are as follow : — 

" Stay, passenger ; why goest thov by so fast ? 
Read, if thov canst, whom enviovs death hath plast 
Within this monument — Shakspeare, with whome 
Quicke Nature dide, whose name doth deck ys tombe ; 
Far more than cost ; sieh all yt he hath writt, 
Leaves living art but page to serve his witt. 

"Obiit Ano Doi, 1616. ./Etatis 53, Die 23 Ap. 

Around him fleep his wife, his daughters, and all his defcendants. 
Several of his wife's family, the Hathaways, are interred in the 
choir and naves. A certain proportion of the profits of the com- 
memoration will be applied to the reparation of that portion of 
the edifice in which his own remains await the call of the final 
trump. 



Ann Hathaway 's Cottage. 29 



ANN HATHAWAY'S COTTAGE. 

All readers of Shakefpeare know that he married when only 
nineteen, and that his wife, Ann Hathaway, was eight years his 
fenior. There is certainly fomething rather romantic in this boy- 
lover epifode in the life of the poet, and one naturally feels a 
defire to vilit the fcenes connected with it before he can realife 
to himfelf the fact that he who held all the paffions of the human 
breaft in his control could have allowed one of them — the gentled: 
of his subjects — to conquer and tyrannife over himfelf. The 
hamlet of Shottery, clofe by and in the pariih of Stratford, is the 
very fpot on which the boy lover, with all the ardour of a Romeo, 
pleaded his caufe with Ann Hathaway, and her cottage ±1:111 remains 
reverentially preferved on account of its literary aflbciations. To 
reach this hamlet the vifitor can, on palling the church turn, 
strike upon a pathway that here opens into the fields, and a walk 
of a few minutes will bring him in front of a long, thatched 
houfe, with dormer windows and projecting gables, the very 
houfe he is in fearch of. In the shadow of that high-pitched 
roof, now moi's-grown, when the moon lhone bright — when the 
fweet wind did gently kits the trees, and they did makenonoife, 
the poet may have — 

" Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad 
Made to his mistress' eyebrow " — 

lerenaded her for whom he was all made of fighs and tears — all 
made of faith and fervice — all made of fantaly — 

" All made of passion, and all made of wishes — 
All adoration, duty, and observance : 
All humbleness, all patience and impatience — ■ 
All purity, all trial, all observance ;" 

and her prefence at one of thole cafements may have beguiled 
him into the idea that the morning dawned, and that lhe who 
appeared there, refponfive to his roundelay, was herfelf the fun. 
All the purity, frelhnefs, and ardour of love, so beautifully 
defcribed in the lines quoted above, were here felt and experienced 
by the poet himfelf; and we may, without doing any violence to 
conjecture, fancy him, in order to avoid the good-natured banter 



30 Charlecote. 



of fome village Mercutio, fleeing for ilielter into the orchard 
which, we are told, then flanked the houle itfelf. This once 
admitted as an article of our literary creed, Verona pales in 
companion with Shottery. Ann Hathaway herfelf mull have 
duly appreciated all her youthful and enthufialtic lover felt, 
for it is not often that we rind line women of the age 
at which lhe was at the time feel otherwife than amufed 
at the admiration of love-ltricken lads. It is not, then, to be 
wondered at that the flame thus kindled between them foon 
lighted Hymen's torch ; and there can be no doubt that the 
refponfibility of a hulband, thus early alfumed, was the main 
flimulus which drove him to leek, by his talents, a competency 
for his wedded life. It has, however, been faid that the bitter 
confequences ariling out of his celebrated deer-ftalking efcapade 
were the caufe why he hurried to London, and that the hiftrionic 
celebrity of his townlmen, the Burbages and Greene, suggefted 
to him the ftage as a profellion. 

CHARLECOTE HALL. 

This naturally leads us to vilit Charlecote Hall, where Sir 
Thomas Lucy — the original of Juftice Shallow — 

" In fair round belly, with good capon lined, 
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut — 

magifterially inquired into the poaching delinquencies of the poet. 
It is on the other fide of the Avon, about four miles diftant from 
the town of Stratford, and there is not, perhaps, in the kingdom 
a more interefting fpecimen of the domeftic architecture of the 
reign of Elizabeth. It is flill in the poffeffion of the Lucy family ; 
and the prefent proprietor, with a generofity worthy of all imita- 
tion, has freely thrown it and his grounds open, on the occafion of 
this commemoration, to the inlpection of the public. The park 
within which it is lituated is handlbmely wooded, and there at 
prefent grazes a magnificent herd of fallow deer, the defcen- 
dants, it may be, of those in puriuit of which young Shakefpeare 
played the part of Robin Hood. It would appear, from old 
chronicles connected with the town of Stratford, that the in- 
habitants had at all times a tafte for fuch fylvan amufements ; 



Charlecote. 



for we are told by Wheler there is in exiftence a precept from 
Gilford, Biihop of Worcefter, of the eftates of which fee Stratford 
and the furrounding district then formed a part, commanding his 
deans to excommunicate all who might break his parks and ileal 
his deer — the excommunication being, perhaps, as bitter and as 
vehement as that fulminated by Ernulphus, Biihop of Ro- 
chefter, and which, when read in the Shandean parlour, gave 
rise to the following amufing dialogue : — 

" ' Our armies swore terribly in Flanders,' cried my Uncle Toby ; 
'but nothing to this; for my own part, I could not have a heart to 
curse my dog so. I declare my heart would not let me curse the Devil 
himself with so much bitterness.' 

" ' He is the father of curses,' replied Doctor Slop. 

" ' So am not I,' replied my uncle. 

" ' But he is cursed and d d already to all eternity,' replied 

Doctor Slop. 

" ' I am sorry for it,' quoth my Uncle Toby." 

Defpite, however, all fuch ecclefiaitical weapons, and defpite 
too, the feverity of the foreft laws, the fpirit of which ftill 
breathed from the Statute Book, the flavour of a roafted haunch, 
and the rich relifh of a patty, were temptations too powerful to 
be refitted. To thefe, then, Shakefpeare, like others of his townf- 
men, yielded, and his apprehenfion in the commiffion of the 
offence has given to this noble manfion and park,* and to the 

* Mr. Bracebridge has written a most interesting pamphlet to prove 
that Shakespeare was no deer-stealer, but that he hunted deer in Full- 
broke Park. This property belonged to the Englefield family, but 
Shakespeare was probably aware that, owing to certain legal arrange- 
ments, the property was not fenced in, and therefore open for public 
sport. In fact, the owner was a banished traitor; and although the 
Crown had not seized upon the land, yet the proprietor was not capable 
of delegating authority, after twenty-seven years of banishment, and no 
fence could be maintained to preserve the ground from intruders. Mr. 
Bracebridge thinks Shakespeare and his friends might thus have hunted 
in the park with a pack of hounds picked up, where they could not pro- 
bably find such a pack of the old English shot-hounds as he accurately 
describes as the hounds of Theseus, Duke of Athens, in the " Midsummer 
Night's Dream." Sir Thomas Lucy's deer-keepers may have arrested 
Shakespeare and his party for what they believed an infringement of the 
right to hunt in the park which was preserved for their master. 



32 The Festival Pavilion. 

ancient family which pofiefs them, a degree of intereft which 
has attached to them for the laft three hundred years, and which 
will cling to them in fecula feculorum ; for fo long will the name, 
of Shakefpeare remain the wonder and admiration of countlefs 
generations. The vifitor to Charlecote will be much pleafed. 
with the architectural beauty of the Church of Hampton Lucy, 
which has been recently reftored under the directions of Scott. 

THE PAVILION. 
Having thus difpofed of the principal objects in the neigh- 
bourhood of his native town connected with the career of 
Shakefpeare, we have now to take a glance at the preparations 
which have been made for celebrating the tercentenary of his. 
birth, and the propriety of that celebration taking place in 
Stratford. There cannot be two opinions upon this latter point. 
It is true that as Shakefpeare was not for a day, but for all time, 
fo he was not for one place, but for the univerfe ; but this argu- 
ment, whillt it proves that the homage to be now paid to his 
genius ought to be univerfal wherever the Englilh language is 
either fpoken or underitood, is not equally conclufive in mowing 
that each city and each town mould on this occafion have a 
feltival of its own. It would be equally logical to fay that no 
particular day mould be celebrated, but that the public ex- 
preiiion of our admiration ought to be fempiternal and con- 
tinuous. On the contrary, as we caufe that exprefiion of our 
admiration to converge upon one day, fo we ought to caufe it 
to converge upon one fpot — the fpot hallowed by his birth — 
hallowed by his fepulture. Of courfe, thofe who are not within 
reach of Stratford — our countrymen in the Colonies — our kinf- 
men in America — will have their local celebrations ■ but within 
the lhores of thefe iilands there ihould not be a thoufand petty, 
but one magnificent altar, railed for the holocaust which the 
nation brings to the ihrine of genius. This, too, feems to have 
been the general feeling throughout the kingdom, for the people 
of Stratford, whilst intending themfelves to pay all due honour 
to the memory of their townfman, modeitly refrained from ob- 
truding upon public notice what they intended to do ; and it was 
not until they had been called upon by the people of Binning- 



The Festival Pavilion. 33 



ham, Manchefter, Liverpool, &c. &c., to do lb, that they, 
worthily headed by their chief magistrate, E. F. Flower, Efq., 
made what had been intended to be merely a local move- 
ment, a national one. The people of England have in this 
acted upon the leffon of good taste fet them by Garrick in 
celebrating at Stratford the celebrated jubilee of 1769, and the 
Commemoration Committee have, fo far as circumftances per- 
mitted, done all in their power to make this feftival a hiftoric 
parallel of its predecelfor. This is principally feen in the erec- 
tion of the pavilion upon a model somewhat similar, but on 
a much more extended scale to that in which Garrick and 
Dr. Arne fpoke and fung the praifes of the bard, and which 
was itfelf a copy of the once celebrated Rotunda in Ranelagh 
Gardens. It is fituated in a large paddock in Southern Lane, close 
by the church. It is in form a regular dodecagon, being as 
near an approach to a perfect amphitheatre as the mechanical 
arrangement of the materials (all timber) ufed in its conftru&ion 
would permit. Internally there are nine faces of the figure 
perfect ; the firfi: and the eleventh are halved by the twelfth being 
advanced more to the front, and thus a fine opening is obtained 
for the fiage. There are two tiers of boxes, one of them being 
on the fame level with the arena, or pit, and the whole can with 
eafe accommodate five thoufand fpectators. The ftru6ture is 
lighted at night by a very fine chandelier, and in the daytime by 
fide windows, and a lantern light upon the apex of the roof. 
There are, adjoining the fiage, convenient drefling-rooms for the 
accommodation of the a6tors. The cunei or benches are well 
arranged and roomy, and the vomitoria, or means of egrefs from 
the building — a matter of most vital importance in a wooden 
theatre — are fufficiently numerous, and of ample width. Both 
the banquet and ball will be celebrated in this pavilion. Here, 
too, will be performed the oratorio of the " Mefliah,'" and for 
that occafion a diftinct orchestra will be erected on the oppofite 
fide from the stage 3 but this will be removed before the per- 
formance of the plays. The drop-scene, which has been painted 
for the occafion, and presented by Mr. Telbin, is in general 
compofition similar to that painted by the lame artist for the 
Princefs's Theatre. It reprefents a vestibule hung with drapery. 



The Festival Pavilion. 



on which are medallions, one on each side, of Comedy and 
Tragedy. A statue of Shakefpeare, life size, stands in the 
centre. At the back there is an archway, through which the 
.spectator obtains a fine view of Stratford Church. 

During the Festival, the approach to the Pavilion for private 
carriages, &rc, both for setting-down and taking-up, will be by 
the water-side from Bridge-street (as marked by an arrow on the 
plan of the town). On leaving the entrance to the Pavilion, 
they will pass through Old Town and Bree-street. 

The approach for omnibuses and persons on foot will be by 
High-street and Chapel-street, to the entrance marked K in 
Church-street. At the close of the performances, omnibuses 
will be stationed in Church-street to take up passengers. 

The seats in the Pavilion are divided into blocks, indicated 
by letters on the tickets. The single letters are all on the east 
side, and the double letters on the west side of the building. 

Directions to the blocks are painted in large letters at the 
various entrances and vestibules. 

The Ticket Office will be open during the day, at " New 
Place," Church-street, and tickets may be obtained at the Office 
marked 23, on the plan of the Pavilion, before each Entertainment. 
Unreserved Tickets can be exchanged for Reserved Seats on 
payment of the difference in price, at the Office. 



EXPLANATION OF GROUND PLAN OF PAVILION. 



1 Theatrical Stage. 

2 Lower part of Orchestra. 

removed during Theatri- 
cal Performances and 
Ball. 

3 Gentlemen's Retiring-room 

during Oratorio and Ball, 
but used for Spectators 
duringTheatrical Repre- 
sentations. 

4 Ladies' ditto, ditto, ditto. 

5 Retiring Room. 

6 Ladies. 

7 Gentlemen. 



8 Stairs to Gallery. 

9 Refreshment Rooms. 

10 Offices for Opera Glasses. 

11 Cloak Rooms. 

12 Stairs to Orchestra. 

13 Committee Room. 

14 Ladies' Dressing Rooms. 

15 Gentlemen's Dressing 

Rooms. 

16 Stairs to Ladies' Dressing 

Rooms. 

17 Stairs to Gentlemen's do. 
i3 Green Room. 

19 General Dressing Room. 



20 Entrances to Ground-floor 

of Building. 

21 Covered Vestibule and 

Corridors to various 
Entrances of Building. 

22 Carriage Platform. 

23 Office for Sale and Ex- 

change of Tickets. 

24 Covered Way. 

25 Church Street Approach 

to Pavilion. 
2S Burton arid Sons' Photo- 
graphic Studio. 

C 2 



THE JUBILEE OF 1769, 

AND SUBSEQUENT CELEBRATIONS. 



The idea of a jubilee in recognition of the merits of Shake- 
fpeare, as a poet, and of the moral advantages which fociety has 
reaped from the works of his genius, originated with Garrick ; 
and, although all men of true literary taste immediately took up 
the idea, and avowed themfelves ready to aid the great actor in 
carrying it into effect, there were found thofe who treated it with 
contempt and ridicule, and attempted to stifle it. Garrick, how- 
ever, was not a man to be laughed out of a courfe which he 
knew to be confiftent with the dictates of a refined taste. On 
the contrary, feeling encouraged by the way in which the project 
had been received by thole whole approval he valued, he im- 
mediately put himfelf in communication with the then Mayor of 
Stratford, Samuel Jarvis, Efq., and that gentleman and the 
Municipal Council, over which he prefided, feeling how much 
they had been distinguithed by their connection with the great 
poet, and how much the poet himfelf owed to the grand inter- 
pretation put upon his works by the Roscius of the day, deter- 
mined to pay all poffible honour to the memory of the one and 
to the person of the other. Garrick was voted the freedom of 
the borough, and the diploma of his enfranchifement was pre- 
fented him in a cafket, not of gold, but of a material still more 
precious — the wood of the mulberry tree which Shakefpeare had 
himfelf planted in New Place. The preparations for the jubilee 
followed fast upon this well-deferved compliment. We are told 
by a local historian "that a very large and magnificent amphi- 
theatre was erected upon the Bankcroft, clofe to the river Avon, 
and which, to pleafe the prevailing taste, fomewhat refembled 
the Ranelagh Rotunda. It was capable of conveniently holding 
above one thoufand fpectators. Within the amphitheatre, which 



The Shakespeare Jul dee. 37 

was fupported by a circular colonnade of columns of the Corinthian 
order, was built a noble orchestra large enough for the accommo- 
dation of one hundred performers. From the centre of the dome 
was fufpended an amazingly large chandelier, coniisting of eight 
hundred lights, which had a beautiful effect ; in fine, the gilding 
of the capitals and bales of the columns, the paintings of the 
ceiling and cornice, the curious pilasters at the angles, and the 
side ornaments, altogether appeared with fuch fymmetry and 
elegance that it would (fays a cotemporary writer) make a lover 
of art figh to think how foon it would be demolished. No 
perfon that could be conveyed into it without viewing the outside 
could ever conceive it was a building of boards. Whilst this 
gorgeous structure was in courfe of being erected, there was fuch 
a concourfe of sightfeers from all parts of the country to Strat- 
ford as the highways of Warwickshire had not feen since the days 
in which the afpiring Leicester entertained his queen with mafquc 
and revel within the proud walls of Kenilworth. But," to again 
quote the work of Mr. Wheler, " great numbers of the nobility 
and gentry arrived a week or ten days before the appointed time 
to fecure their lodgings against the approaching meeting, and 
Stratford, as well as feveral towns and villages in the neighbour- 
hood, was completely filled, previous to its commencement, by 
thofe whofe zeal prompted them to be prefent at this high festival. 
A beautiful ribbon (afterwards formed into favours) was purpofely 
made at Coventry, and called the jubilee ribbon, which united 
and blended all the colours of the rainbow, being at once an 
emblem of his great and univerfal genius." A medal, too, was 
struck in honour of the occasion. On the day fixed for the 
opening of the jubilee, which was the 6th of September, 1769, 
the banks of the Avon feemed to have changed their gentle and 
lovable character, and actually bristled with cohorn and with 
mortar 5 but thefe were no longer the instruments of war, but 
thunder-voiced heralds to proclaim the opening of the festival. 
From daybreak the streets refounded with vocal and instrumental 
music ; and after a public breakfast, the Mayor, John Mefcham, 
Efq., the succeffor of S. Jarvis, Efq., in the civic chair of Strat- 
ford, and the members of the Corporation, waited upon Mr. 
Garrick, at the Shakefpeare Hall, and requested him to accept 



The Shakespeare Jubilee. 



at their hands the infignia of his office as prime steward of the 
jubilee. To this request he made a fuitable reply ; and at the 
very moment of his investure, a hgnal being given, the cannon 
which were planted by the river's side fired a falvo, to apprife all 
congregated within the town of the important fact. A proceffion 
was then formed to the church, where the oratorio of " Judith " 
was performed for the first time. We are told the chorufses 
were very full, the band excellent, being compofed of the whole 
of the Drury Lane orchestra, and that at the end of the first act 
Mr. Bartholemon played a most enchanting folo on the violin. 
From the church they all repaired to the amphitheatre, singing,, 
as they -went, a chorus in the Nunc eft Bihendum fpirit, and, 
ihortly after their arrival there, fat down to a fumptuous banquet, 
rendered doubly pleasing by the singing of fome choice longs- 
and glees. At night the town was illuminated, and the lieges 
delighted with an exhibition of fireworks, and fo ended the first 
day's entertainments. Thofe of the fecond day were likewife 
opened by the firing of cannon, the pealing of bells — by mufic and 
by long. "About eleven o'clock," fays Mr. Wheler, to whofe 
interesting work we are indebted for most of thefe facts, " the 
company repaired to the amphitheatre to hear the dedication ode 
performed, the mufic of the interfperfed airs being compofed and 
conducted by Dr. Arne." Garrick, we may be well fare, exercifed 
all his elocutionary powers to give effect to thofe parts of the 
ode (it was his own compofition) which he had to fpeak. Dr. 
Arne took equally good care that the mufical parts of it should 
be faultlefsly performed, and therefore it is not to be wondered 
at that the whole proved a great fucceis. Garrick then delivered 
a profe encomium on 

" That demi-god 
Who Avon's flow'ry margin trod," 

and announced a cartel of defiance to all who would dare difpute 
his praife. The challenge was refponded to by a brother actor, 
King, an eminent comedian of the day, and his appearance in 
the arena on fuch an occahon as the affailant of Shakefpeare 
created some amazement amongft the company, as thofe who 
were unacquainted with the playful character of his humour 
actually thought that his interruption was likely to lead to dif- 



The Shakespeare Julih c. o>9 

agreeable confequences, but their fatisfaction became enhanced 
by this little fright when they found that Mr. King's charge 
against the bard was that he was a tyrant and a defpot, abfohite 
over the feelings of the heart, and compelling men to laugh and 
cry whether they wished to do fo or not. This mock trial was 
succeeded by a banquet. When evening fell, the town was 
again illuminated, and again Mr. Angelo,, who was pyrotechnist 
on the occafion, delighted the populace with all the wonders or 
his art. At midnight there was a mafquerade, in which many 
of the ladies and gentlemen prefent fustained tome of the 
principal charactersdn the poet's plays, but the greater part of 
the nobility and literary gentlemen were in dominoes. The un- 
favourable state of the weather on the next clay fpoiled apage; 
which might have rivalled any ever feen in Venice at a carnival, 
but it had very little influence with thofe who wished to witnefs 
the race on Shottery courfe for the jubilee cup. As long 
introduced the festival, fo it was appropriately doled with a feries 
of dances, in the courfe of which Mrs. Garrick, as we are in- 
formed by the local historian, with inimitable grace, danced a 
minuet. 

This doled the jubilee of 1769, to the complete fatisfaction of 
all who engaged in it. It had this important effect — it kindled a 
flame of enthusiafm with refpect to the bard, and the merits 
of his great dramas; which has furvived until the prefent day, 
and which on this, the Tercentenary Anniveriary of his birth, is 
deftined to burst forth with greater brilliancy than before, and, 
with its vivifying heat, give birth to a new ipirit of inquiry, not 
only as regards the habits of the man himfelf, but alio the fcope 
and comprehensivenefs of his genius. It has, too, been the 
parent of feveral minor celebrations which have alio been held 
at Stratford, where the 23rd of April has come to be regarded 
as a holiday. Some few literary men, and the more cele- 
brated aftors of the day, visit the town, view the houfe in which 
he was born, make a pilgrimage to his ihrine, and with others, 
his admirers, dine together, and duly pledge the glorious, pious, 
and immortal memory of him in whole honour they aflemble. 

On two occasions, however, this programme was considerably 
extended, namely, in 1827 and 1S30. On the first of thefe 



40 The Shakespeare Jubilee. 

occasions there was a commemoration organifed under the 
aufpices of the Shakefpeare Club, when that portion of Mr. 
Garrick's arrangement which the unfavourable state of the 
weather prevented him carrying out was adopted with consider- 
able succefs. A regular proceflion of Shakefperian characters 
marched through the town. Fa/Jiqff'fwaggeved along, attended by 
his faithful and glowing fervitor, Bardolph. The page trotted at 
the heels of his burly master. Caliban and Trinculo fwore eternal 
friendfhip over the bottle. The witches, weird sisters of the lea 
and land, danced round their charmed cauldron, and sang their 
incantations. Malvolio wore his motley. Shylock, with knife 
and fcales, gloated over the idea that he was about to reap the 
gratification of his revenge ; Launcelot, his fervant, betrayed his 
irrefolution, doubtful whether to act upon the fuggestions of the 
fiend or the dictates of his own confeience ; Petruchio appeared 
in his rare wedding apparel ; Launce, and his dog too, figured in 
the fcene, and all the great creations of the bard were for the 
time embodied for the amufement of his townfmen. Hymns, 
too, were fung in praife of him, and his ?bust was crowned with 
a wreath of bays. Then, too, was laid the foundation of the 
prefent theatre, and this ceremony was followed by a mafquerade 
and a great difplay of fireworks. On the following day there 
was another mafquerade and other entertainments. 

The festival in 1830 was patronifed by royalty, but was, not- 
withstanding, fomewhat inferior in fpectacle to that in 1827. 
The ceremonial part of the proceedings was exactly fimilar, and 
this was followed by concerts, balls, and mafquerades. Alaric 
Watts and Mr. Charles Kean were thofe to whom it owed its 
chief fuccefs. The former wrote an ode for the occafion, and 
the latter, then almost a novice on the boards, fustained fome of 
thofe characters which his father had made his own, and gave the 
public an opportunity of auguring the fuccefs which was to 
attend his own histrionic career — a career which has not been lefs 
productive of honour to the Britifh stage than it has been pro- 
fitable to himfelf, and which every lover of art must cordially 
wifli may be long continued in reputation and prosperity. 



The Tercentenary Festival of the Birth 

of Shakespeare, to be held at 

Stratfard-upon-Avon. 



<0>ffiriaK Programme, 



The distinguished Artistes named in the Programme, whose 
combined talents at the celebration of the Festival held in 
memory of the Great Master will enable the Committee to 
present a feries of unrivalled performances and entertainments, 
have, in order to show their high appreciation of his genius,, 
given their services gratuitously. 



[The Programme having to be prepared and printed three weeks before the Festival, 
it is possible that unforeseen circumstances may necessitate some changes. The Com- 
mittee, however, trust that they will only be unimportant ones ; and beg to intimate, that 
should any alteration take place, it will be announced previous to the performance.] 



OFFICERS 



PRESIDENT .- 

The Right Hon. The Earl of Carlisle, K.G., Lord 
Lieutenant of Ireland. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS : 



Aylesford, The Earl of 
American Minister, His Ex- 
cellency, The 
Atty, James, Esq. 

Bourke, The Hon. Robert 
Brewer, Professor, S. S. 
Byng, The Hon. Frederick 
Badham, The Rev. Dr. 
Bath, The Mayor of 
Battam, Thomas, Esq., F.S.A. 
Buxton, Charles, Esq., M.P. 
Bazley, Thomas, Esq., M.P. 
Bell, Rob., Esq., F.R.S.L., &.c. 
Bellew, The Rev. J. C. M. 
Bov/yer,Lieut-Colonel, H. A. 
BOYvTES, Rev. J., D.D., LL.D. 
Birmingham, The Mayor of 
Blackburn, The Mayor of 
Bracebridge, C. PIolte, Esq. 
Brooks, Shirley, Esq. 
Bohn, Henry G., Esq. 
Buckstone, J. B., Esq. 
Brockhaus, Herr Heinrich 

Clarendon, The Earlgf, K. G. 
Coventry, The Earl of 
Craven, The Earl of 
Campden, Viscount 
Crossley, Sir Francis, Bt., 

M.P. 
Copeland, Alderman, M.P. 
Cabbell, B. Bond, Esq., 

F.R.S., F.S.A. 



Cameron, The Rev. D. 
Chambers, Robt., Esq., LL.D.,. 

F.R.S.E., &c. 
Clark, The Rev. W. G, M.A. 
Child, W. H., Esq. 
Cobb, Timothy Rhodes, Esq. 
Collier, J. Payne, Esq. 
Colmore, Thomas, Esq. 
Conolly, J. Esq., M.D., D.C.L. 
Cox, W. Sands, Esq., F.R.S. 
Cresv/ick, T., Esq., R.A. 
Creswick, W., Esq. 
Crosskey, The Rev. H. W. 

Dartmouth, The Earl of 
Delav/arr, The Earl 
Dufferin, Lord, K.C.B. 
Drax, J. S. W. S. E., Esq., M.P. 
Dickins, W., Esq. 

DlNSDALE, F., ESO., LL.D;. 

F.S.A. 
Dobie, Alexander, Esq. 
Dugdale, James, Esq. 
Dyce, The Rev. Alexander 
Dublin, His Grace the Lord 
Archbishop of 

Elton, Sir Arthur Hallam, 

Bart. 
Ewart,W.,Esq.,M.P.,F.RG.S. 
Ev/art, Joseph, Esq., M.P. 
Ellis, Joseph, Esq. 
Evesham, The Mayor of 
Elmore, Alfred, Eso., R.A. 



Officers 



43 



Feversham, Lord 
Flower, E. F., Esq. 
Frith, W. P., Esq., R.A. 

Gervinus, Herr 

Gp. ayes,- Sir Maxwell Steele, 

Bart. 
Godwin, George, Esq., F.R.S. 
Graves, The Very Rev. 

Charles, Dean of the 

Chapel Royal, Dublin 
Greaves, Richard, Esq. 
Greenway, Kelynge, Esq. 
Gruneisen, Charles Lewis, 

Esq., F.R.G.S. 

Harrowby, The Earlof, K. G. 
Houghton, Lord 
Hamilton, Sir Robert N. C, 

Bart., K.C.B. 
Holland, Edward, Esq., M.P. 
Halifax, The Mayor of 
Hardy, Duffus, Esq. 
Hall, S. C, Esq., F.S.A. 
Harding, W. J., Esq. 
Heath, R. C, Esq. 
Hodgson, Joseph, Esq., F.R.S. 
Holbech, The Rev. C. W. 
hoskyns, chandos w., esq. 
Hugo, Mons. Victor 
Hugo, Mons. Francois Victor 
Hume, The Rev. Dr., F.R.S., 

D.C.L. 
Halevy, Mons. Leon 

Ingestre, Viscount, M.P, 

Jaffray, John, Esq. 
Jephson, H., Esq., M.D. 
Jones, J. C, Esq., F.S.A. 

Kaye, J. W., Esq. 
Knight, Charles, Esq. 

Lichfield, The Earl of 
Leigh, Lord, Lord-Lieutenant 

of Warwickshire 
Lyttelton, Lord, F.R.S. 
Leigh, Hon. E. Chandos 



Langton, G., Esq., M.P., 

F.G.H.S. 
Ledger, Frederick' Esq. 
Leigh, P. A., Esq. 
Leigh, J. W. Boughton, Esq. 
Liverpool, The Mayor of 
Lloyd, Sampson S., Esq. 
Lucas, Saml., Esq., M.A. 
Lucy, Rev. John 

Manchester, The Duke of 

Masson, Professor 

Mordaunt, Sir C, Bt., M.P. 

Moon, Sir F. Graham, Bart., 
F.S.A. 

Machen, John, Esq. 

Macready, W. C, Esq. 

Manchester, The Mayor of 

Martin, Theodore, Esq. 

Mellon, Alfred, Esq. 

Meyrick, Lieut.-Col. Aug. 

Mommsen, Herr 

Moore, The Ven. Arch- 
deacon 

Mordaunt, J. Murray, Esq. 

Morrison, Alfred, Esq. 

Muntz, P. H., Esq. 

Northumberland, The Duke. 

of, K.G. 
Newport, Viscount, M.P. 
North, Lieut.-Colonel • J. 

Sidney, M.P. 
Newcastle, The Mayor of 
Nichol, Professor John 
Nichols, J. Gough, Esq., 

F.S.A. 

Owen, Professor 
O'Hagan, The Right PIon. T., 
O.C., M.P. 

Palk,Sir Laurence, Bt., M.P. 
Panizzi, Antonio, Esq. 
Padmore, R., Esq., M.P. 
Paxton, Sir J., M.P., F.L.S. 
Powell, John, Esq., M.P. 
Pears, A. H., Esq. 
Philips, Mark, Esq. 
Philips, R. N., Esq. 



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Officers. 



P 'LAN CHE, J .R.ESQ., Rouge Croix 
Prichard, The Rev. R. 
Plumptre, E. J., Esq. 
Phillimore, Sir Robert J., 
D.C.L., Queen's Advocate 

Ranelagh, Viscount 
Rochdale, The Mayor of 
Russell, W. H., Esq., LL.D. 
Shrewsbury and Talbot, 

The Earl of, P.C., C.B. 
Sherborne, Lord 
Salt, Thomas, Jun., Esq., M.P. 

SCHOLEFIELD, W., ESQ., M.P. 

Sheridan, R. B., Esq., M.P. 
Shirley, Evelyn P., Esq., 

M.P., F.S.A. 
Smith, Gustavus T., Esq. 
Smyth, AdmiralW. H., K.S.F. 

D.C.L., F.R.S., &c. 
Spicer, Henry, Esq. 
Stack, J. Herbert, Esq. 
Stanley, The Very Rev. Dr., 

Dean of Westminster 
Starkey, J. F., Esq. 
Staunton, Howard, Esq. 
Staunton, J., Esq., 
Sudeley, Viscount 
Swansea, The Mayor of 
St. Andrews, The Bishop of 

Talbot de Malahide, Lord 
Taylor, P. A., Esq., M.P. 
Thornhill, W. P., Esq., M.P. 
Tam worth, The Mayor of 



Taylor, Tom, Esq. 

Temple, The Rev. Dr., Rugby 

Tennyson, Alfred, Esq., 

D.C.L., Poet Laureate 
Townsend, The Rev. Henry 
Trinity College, Oxford, 

The President of 
Tite, William, Esq., M.P. 

Vernon, Lord 
Vizetelly, Henry, Esq. 

Warwick, The Earl of 
Wood, Edward, Esq. 
Wrottesley, Lord, F.R.S., 

F.R.AS. 
Worcester, The Right Rev. 

the Lord Bishop of 
Wyld, James, Esq., M.P., 

F.R.G.S. 
Warwickshire, The High 

Sheriff of 
Webster, Benjamin, Esq. 
West, J. R., Esq. 
Wilmot, Sir J. Eardley, 

Bart. 
Worcester, The Mayor of 
Worcestershire, The High 

Sheriff of 
Wright, William Aldis, 

Esq., M.A. 
Wood, Sir W. Page, Vice- 
Chancellor. 

York, The Lord Mayor of 



LOCAL COMMITTEE: 
Sir Rop.ert N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.B., Chairman. 

\ Vice-Chairmen. 



The Rev. G. Granville, Vicar, 
E. F. Flower, Esq., Mayor, 



Adams, Mr. E. 
Archer, Mr. J. 
Atkinson, Mr. 
Bellew, The Rev. J. C. M. 
Bennett, Mr. J. 
Bird, Mr. R. M. 



Bolton, Mr. W. G. F. 
Bracebridge, C. Holte, Esq. 
Chance, T. H. Esq. 
Colbourne, Mr. W. G. 
Conolly, Dr. 
Cox, Mr. James 



Offit 



Craig, J. S., Esq. 
Flower, C. E., Esq. 
Flower, Edgar, Esq. 
Gibbs, Mr. Edward 
Gibbs, Mr. William 
Greener, W., Esq. 
Hansard, The Rev. Septimus 
Hobbes, Robert H., Esq. 
Harding, W. J., Esq. 
Hartley, Mr. E. R. 
Hunt, W. O., Esq. 
Kingsley, Dr. 
Kendall, F., Esq. 
Knights, Mr. W. 
Lane, H., Esq. 
Langford, J. A., Esq. 
Leaver, Mr. J. S. 



Loggin, Mr. C. F. 
Lucy, Mr. M. 
Mathews, Mr. 
Morgan, Mr. John 
Morton, The Rev. W. 
Nason, J. J., Esq., M.B. 
Norris, Mr. W. L. 
Philips, Mark, Esq. 
Puttick, J. F., Esq. 
Salaman, Charles, Esq. 
S AMMAN, Mr. H. 
Stephenson, Mr. W. 
Stewart, J., Esq. 
Thomson, Dr. 
Thompson, Mr. W. 
Warden, Mr. J. C. 
Young, The Rev. Julian C. 



Lowry, Mi 

H. Kingsley, M.D., Honorary Secretary. 
Mr. James Sharp, Assistant Secretary. 



MONUMENTAL MEMORIAL COMMITTEE : 



The Earl of Carlisle, K.G. 
The Earl of Somers, 

F.R.G.S. 
Sir Robert N. C. Hamilton, 

Bart., K.C.B. 
Sir Coutts Lindsay, Bart. 
Robert Bell, Esq., F.R.S.L. 
C. Buxton, Esq., M.P. 
C. L. Gruneisen, Esq. 



Theodore Martin, Esq. 
Gambier Parry, Esq. 
John Ruskin, Esq. 
Tom Taylor, Esq. 
Alfred Tennyson, Esq. 

D.C.L. (Poet Laureate) 
William Stirling, Esq., M.P. 
Austen H. Layard,Esq.,M.P. 
J. Beresford Hope, Esq. 



Subscriptions will be received by Messrs. Glyn and Co., Messrs. 
Smith, Payne, and Smith, and Messrs. Hanbury and Co., Bankers, 
London ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and Greenway, Bankers, 
Warwick ; the Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Company, 
and the Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, Stratford- 
upon-Avon. 

Tickets for the reserved places may be had, and plans of the 
Pavilion seen, at the Ticket offices, New Place, Stratford-upon- 
Avon, and at No. 2, Exeter Hall, London. 

All orders for tickets must be accompanied by a remittance for 
the amount. Cheques and P. O. Orders should be made payable to 
Mr. John Dickie, Stratford-upon-Avon, or Mr. John Carmichael, 
No. 2, Exeter Hall, London. 



STRATFORD -UPON -AVON 



&mmimm\) Jtsiifral . 



In accordance with the expectations manifested throughout the 
country, that the ordinary marks of respect and rejoicing with 
which the birthday of Shakespeare is annually commemorated in 
his native town, should in this, the Three hundredth anniversary, 
be extended to a national celebration, a Committee was formed in 
the early part of 1863 to suggest and carry out a scheme which 
might, so far as possible, meet the requirements of the occasion- 
After many months of unceasing exertion, rendered more onerous 
by their entire inexperience, and by the difficulty of selecting from 
among the vast number of suggestions which have been offered 
from all parts of the world, the Committee have succeeded in com- 
pleting their arrangements, and now beg to lay the result of then- 
labours before the public. 

The Committee take this opportunity of acknowledging the 
kindly assistance rendered them on all hands during the progress 
of the undertaking. They have also much pleasure in announcing 
that many of the most eminent Dramatic and Vocal artistes have 
given their gratuitous services, and have heartily joined in the 
earnest endeavour to make the entertainment as attractive as 
possible. 

The substantial objects to which the pecuniary results of the 
Festival will be devoted, are — 

1st. The erection of a National Monumental Memorial to 
Shakespeare in the Town of his birth. 

2nd. The extension of the educational advantages of the Free 
Grammar School of King Edward VI., Stratford-upon-Avon, at 
which Shakespeare was educated, and to found one or more 
Scholarships or Exhibitions to the Universities of the United 
Kingdom, open to .the competition of those who have received 
their education at that School. 



First Day, Saturday, April 



THE FESTIVAL WILL COMMENCE AT NOON. 



o y 



NATIONAL MEMORIAL. 

The President, Vice-Presidents, Committee, and others officially 
connected with the proceedings, will meet at the TOWN Hall, and 
proceed to inspect the site fixed upon for the erection of the 
National Memorial, at the Market House, in High Street. 



AT THREE O'CLOCK 

A BANQUET 

Y\ 7 ill be held in the Pavilion, at which the Earl of Carlisle will 
preside, supported by many members of both Houses of Parliament, 
and others eminent in Literature, Science, and Art. 

Ladies are particularly invited to attend, and the tickets issued 
will be strictly limited to the number of guests that can be accom- 
modated with comfort. 



Tickets for tlic Banquet (including Wine) - - 2 1 s. 
Spectators (to the Gallery) ------ c, s . 



48 First Day, Saturday, April 23. 

In the Evening, at Nine o'clock, 

A GRAND DISPLAY OF FIREWORKS, 

By Mr. DARBY, the Celebrated Pyrotechnist, 

WILL TAKE PLACE. 



A COMMODIOUS STAND WILL BE ERECTED. 

PROGRAMME. 
!, — Previous to the Grand Display, Two superb Balloons will 
ascend (weather permitting), each discharging an unique and 
beautiful Aerial display : — The first, " Shakespeare," Blue 
and White. The second, " Stratford-on-Avon," Pink and 
Blue. The ascent will be announced by Aerial Signals. 
— Royal Salute of Maroons, in imitation of Cannon. 
— Grand display of Bengal Lights. 
— A display of Emerald Green Fire. 
— A display of Crimson Fire. 
—Flights of Tourbillons. 
— Rockets with brilliant Stars. 
—A Shell of Comet Stars. 

— A Set Piece, forming *a Sun Wheel, illuminated with Crimson, 
Green, and Purple Fire, terminating in a Glory of Brilliants, 
loudly reported. 
10. — A Mine of Saucissons. 
11. — Rockets with brilliant Stars. 

12. — A Shell of Tail Stars, forming a Drooping Willow. 
13. — A Mine of Serpents. 

14. — A Concentric Circle Wheel, in a great variety of coloured 
Fires ; Sunflower Wheels, changing from Yellow to Green, 
and finally Crimson, with an enormous Sun of innumerable 
radii, loudly reported. 
15. — Mines of Pots dAigrettes. 
16. — Tourbillons (Chinoise). 

17. — Rockets, with Floating Lights — "The Asteroid." 
18.— A Shell of Purple and Gold. 
19. — A Shell — " The Golden Cloud." 
20. — Rockets — " The Peacock's Plume." 



First Day, Saturday, April 23. 49 

21. — The Giant Montgolfier Balloon, which, when at a great alti- 
tude, will discharge a Cornucopia of variegated Fires, 
descending to the earth. 

22. — Rockets — " The Prince of Wales." 
23.— Tourbillons, Rayonnet. 

24. — A Shell of Crimson Stars. 

25. — A Mine of Saucissons. 

26. — A grand and novel design, <; The Chinese Looking-glass," 
commences with a Centrical Circumfuse Wheel, in Blue, 
Green, and Crimson Fire, with a peculiar Figure in Lance 
Work, displaying the broad outline in pure Blue Fire ; 
the whole concluding with a grand Lattice of Straw Fire, 
reported. 

27. — Rockets — " Princess of Wales." 

28. — A Shell of Crimson and Green Stars. 

29. — Tourbillons, brilliant. 

30. — Rockets, with Golden Rain. 

31. — A magnificent Fountain-piece, with six Revolving Stars, 
showing cross-cut Devices ; finishing with a brilliant Fountain 
of Golden Fire, marooned. 

32. — Rockets, with brilliant Stars. 

33. — A Shell of Purple and Gold. 

34. — Flights of Tourbillons. 

35. — A Mine of Serpents. 

2,6. — Rockets, with Floating Lights and Streamers. 

37. — An elaborate Set Piece, in four Mutations. 1. — Vertical Wheel. 

with illuminated Scroll. 2. — Illuminated Wheels, in various 

colours, changing to Silver Circles, and five pointed Stars, 

• finishing with a grand display of Chinese Fire, loudly 

reported. 

38. — Nests of Serpents. 

39. — Rockets, with Crimson and Green Stars. 

40.— A Shell of Brilliants. 

41. — Rockets — "The Peacock's Plume." 

42. — A Set Piece— "The Saxon Cross "—commencing with a 
double Vertical Wheel, in Green and Crimson Fire, chang- 
ing to Revolving Wheels, in various colours, with Saxons, in 
White and Green circles, terminating with a display of 
Rayonnet and brilliant Fire. 

43.— Display of variegated Italian Lights. 

44-— Rockets, with Green Stars, changing to Crimson. 

45- — A Shell of Crimson Stars. 



5° First Day, Saturday, April 23. 

46. — A Shell — Bouquet of Flowers. 

47. — A Set Piece — " The Tree " — commencing with Double Scroll 
Wheel, formed with Diamond Lights, changing to a Pyramid 
of Wheels, decorated with Crimson and Green Fire, Chinese 
Flyers, and pointed Stars, finishing with a beautiful Tree of 
Silver Fire, with Red and Green Flowers. 

48. — Flights of Tourbillons. 

49. — Rockets, with Silver Rain. 

50.— A Shell of Tail Stars. 

51. — A Mine of Serpents. 

52. — A pair of Bisecting Vertical Wheels, forming a Kaleidoscopic 
Figure, in Crimson and Green Fire, with double Eclosia 
Wheels around the centre of a six-armed Piece, forming a 
most beautiful and unique Design — owing to the curious 
positions of its Fire — concludes with a double Revolving Sun, 
loudly reported. 

53. — Large Rockets, with Snakes. 

54.— Flights of Tourbillons. 

55. — A Mine of Saucissons. 

56.— A Shell of Brilliants. 

57. — Rockets, with Floating Lights. 

58. — A grand Circumfuse Wheel, changing to a Tree of various 
colours — consisting of Sun Wheels, with Bouquets of Jas- 
mine Flowers, and " Les Petites Etoiles," in colours, reported. 

59. — Rockets — "The Peacock's Plume." 

60.— A Shell of Purple and Gold. 

61. — Rockets, with Silver Rain. 

62. — A Shell of Fanfaronades. 

63. — Grand concluding Piece, made expressly for the occasion 
— " The Vision of Shakespeare " — formed of many thousand 
Lights, and gigantic Transparent Effects, supported by Orna- 
mental Pedestals in various coloured Fires, with Gerbes of 
the largest dimensions, interspersed with Showers of Pots 
d Aigrettes, Mines of Saucissons, Girandoles of Coloured 
Rockets, forming a Bouquet of the most beautiful Fires known 
in the Pyrotechnic Art. During the exhibition of this 
superb piece, the grand coup de feu will take place, intro- 
ducing showers of Streaming Stars, coloured Blossoms, and 
Saucissons, and the whole surmounted by the Prince of 
Wales's Plume. 



Second Day, Sunday, April 24, 



TWO SERMONS 

WILL BE PREACHED 

IN THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY; 
That in the Morning 

BY 

HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN, 

SERVICE TO COMMENCE AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK. 



That in the Afternoon 

BY 

THE LORD BISHOP OF ST. ANDREWS. 

SERVICE TO COMMENCE AT HALF-PAST THREE O'CLOCK. 



*^* Collections will le made at the close of each Service, for 
the purpose of restoring and beautifying the Chancel, where the 



of Shakespeare are interred. 



Third Day, Monday, April 25. 



AT NOON, 
WILL BE PERFORMED HANDEL'S ORATORIO 

OF 

THE MESSIAH. 



||rwripl Itoaltsts. 



Madame Parepa, 
Madame Sainton-Dolby, 
Mr. Sims Reeves, 



Mr. George Perren, 
Mr. Patey, 
Mr. Santley. 



Trumpet— -Mr. T. Harper. 

BAND AND CHORUS OF FIVE HUNDRED PERFORMERS. 

Conductor — Mr. Alfred Mellon. 

The Chorus has been selected from the Festival Choral Society, 
and Amateur Harmonic Society, Birmingham ; the Sacred Har- 
monic Society, London ; the Festival Choral Society, Worcester ; 
and from Holy Trinity Church Choir, Stratford-on-Avon. 



PART THE FIRST. 

OVERTURE. 

Recti and Air Mr. SlMS Reeves. 

Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, saith your God. Speak 
ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is 

accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned. (Isa. xl. i, 2). 

The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the 
way of the Lord : make straight in the desert a highway for our 
God. (Isa. xl. 3.) 

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill made 
ow, the crooked straight, and the rough places plain. (Isa. xl. 4.) 



Third Day, Monday, April 25. 



Chorus. 

And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall 
see it together ; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. 
(Isa. xl. 5.) 

Recti Mr. Santlev. 

Thus saith the Lord of Hosts : Yet once a little while, and 
I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea, and the dry land ; 
and I will shake all nations, and the Desire of all nations shall 
come. (Hagg. ii. 6, 7.) The Lord, whom ye seek, shall sud- 
denly come to His temple ; even the messenger of the covenant, 
whom ye delight in ; behold, He shall come, saith the Lord of 
Hosts. (Mai. iii. 1.) 

Air Madame SaintoVDolby. 

But who may abide the day of His coming? and who shall 
stand when He appeareth? For He is like a refiner's fire. (Mai 
iii. 2.) 

Chorus. 

And He shall purify the sons of Levi, that they may offer unto 
the Lord an offering in righteousness. (Mai. iii. 3.) 

Recti., Air, and Chorus Madame SAINTON-DOLBY. 

Behold, a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall 
call his'name Immanuel, God with us. (Isa. vii. 14; Matt. i. 23.) 

O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up into the 
high mountain : O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift 
up thy voice with strength ; lift it up, be not afraid ; say unto the 

cities of Judah, Behold your God! (Isa. xl. 9.) Arise, shine, 

for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. 
(Isa. Ix. 1.) 

Recti and Air Mr. Santley. 

For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness 
the people ; but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall 
be seen upon thee ; and the Gentiles shall come to Thy light, and 
kings to the brightness of thy rising. (Isa. Ix. 2, 3.) 

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light ; and 
they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath 
the light shined. (Isa. ix. 2.) 

Chorus. 

For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given : and the 
government shall be upon his shoulder : and His name shall be 
called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting 
Father, the Prince of Peace. (Isa. ix. 6.) 



54- Third Day, Monday, April 25. 

PASTORAL SYMPHONY. 

Recitative. 

There were shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over 
their fiucks by night. (Luke ii. 8.) 

Recitative (accompanied) ") 

Recitative > Madame PAREPA. 

Recitative (accompanied) ) 

And lo ! the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory 
of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid. 
(Luke ii. 9.) 

And the angel said unto them, Fear not ; for, behold, I bring 
you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people : for 
unto you is born this clay, in the city of David, a Saviour, which 
is Christ the Lord. (Luke ii. 10, 11.) 

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the 
heavenly host, praising God and saying. (Luke ii. 13.) 

Chorus. 

Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, goodwill 
towards men ! (Luke ii. 14.) 

Air Madame Parepa. 

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion ! Shout, O daughter of 
Jerusalem ! behold, thy King cometh unto Thee ! He is the 
righteous Saviour, and He shall speak peace unto the heathen. 
(Zech. ix. 9, 10.) 

Recti and Air Madame Sainton-Dolby. 

Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of 
the deaf unstopped ; then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and 
the tongue of the dumb shall sing. (Isa. xxxv. 5, 6.) 

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd ; and He shall gather th 
lambs with His arm, and carry them in his bosom, and gently lea 
those that are with young. (Isa. xl. 11.) 

Air Madame Parepa. 

Come unto Him, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and 
He shall give you rest. Take His yoke upon you, and learn of 
Him ; for He is meek and lowly of heart : and ye shall find rest 
unto your souls. (Matt. xi. 28, 29.) 

Chorus. 

His yoke is easy, and His burthen is light. (Matt. xi. 30.) 



Third Day, Monday, April 25. 



PART THE SECOND. 

Chorus. 

Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world. 
(John i. 29.) 

Air Madame Sainton-Dolby. 

He was despised and rejected of men ; a man of sorrows and 

acquainted with grief. (Isa. liii. 3.) He gave His back to the 

smiters, and His cheeks to them that plucked off the hair : He hid 
not His face from shame and spitting. (Isa. 1. 6.) 

Chorus. 

Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows ! He 
was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our 
iniquities ; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him. (Isa. 
liii. 4, 5.) 

And with His stripes we are healed. (Isa. liii. 5.) 

Chorus. 

All we like sheep have gone astray : we have turned every 
one to his own way. And the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity 
of us all. (Isa. liii. 6.) 

Recit. (accompanied) Mr. Sims Reeves. 

All they that see Him laugh Him to scorn ; they shoot out 
their lips, and shake their heads, saying. (Ps. xxii. 7.) 

Chorus. 

He trusted in God that He would deliver Him ; let Him deliver 
Him if He delight in Him. (Ps. xxii. 8.) 

Recit. (accompanied) and Air Mr. Sms Reeves. 

Thy rebuke hath broken His heart ; He is full of heaviness ; 
He looked for some to have pity on Him ; but there was no man, 
neither found He any to comfort Him. (Ps. lxix. 20.) 

Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto His sorrow. 
(Lam. i. 12.) 

Recit. (accompanied) and Air Madame Parepa. 

He was cut off out of the land of the living ; for the transgression 
of Thy people was he stricken. (Isa. liii. 8.) 

But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell ; nor didst Thou 
suffer Thy Holy One to see corruption. (Acts ii. 27 ; Ps. xvi. 10.) 



56 Third Day, Monday, April 2j 



Semi-Chorus. 

Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting 
doors, and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is the King of 
Glory ? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle. 
Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting 
doors, and the King of Glory shall come in. 

Chorus. 
Who is the King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts, He is the 
King of Glory. (Ps. xxiv. 7, 8, 9, 10.) 

Recti. .. , Mr. Sims Reeves. 

Unto which of the angels said He at any time, Thou art my Son, 
this day have I begotten Thee? (Heb. i. 5.) 

Chorus. 
Let all the angels of God worship Him. (Heb. i. 6.) 

Air Madame Parepa. 

How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of 
peace, and bring glad tidings of good things ! (Rom. x. 15.) 

Chorus. 

Their sound is gone out into all lands, and their words unto the 
ends of the world. (Ps. xix. 4 ; Rom. x. 18.) 

Air Mr. Santlev. 

W 7 hy do the nations so furiously rage together, and why do 
the people imagine a vain thing ? The kings of the earth rise up., 
and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against 
His Anointed. (Ps. ii. 1, 2.) 

Chorus. 
Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their yokes 
from us. (Ps. ii. 3.) 

Recti, and Air Mr. Sims Reeves. 

He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn ; the 
Lord shall have them in derision. (Ps. ii. 4.) 

Thou shall break them with a rod of iron ; Thou shall dash them 
in pieces like a potter's vessel. (Ps. ii. 9.) 

Chorus. 
Hallelujah ! for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. (Rev. 

xix. 6). The kingdom of this world is become the kingdom 

of our Lord, and of His Christ ; and He shall reign for ever and 

ever. (Rev. xi. 15). King of kings and Lord of lords. 

Hallelujah ! (Rev. xix. 16.) 



Third Day, Monday, April 2$. 5 J 

PART THE THIRD. 
Air Madame Parepa. 

I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at 
the latter day upon the earth ; and though worms destroy this 

body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. (Job xix. 25, 26.) For 

now is Christ risen from the dead, the first fruits of them that 
sleep. (1 Cor. xv. 20.) 

Quartet. 
Madame Parepa, Madame S. -Dolby, Mr. Perren, Mr. Patey. 
Since by man came death, 

Chorus. 
By man came also the resurrection of the dead. 
Quartet. 
Madame Parepa, Madame S.-Dolby, Mr. Perren, Mr. Patey. 

For as in Adam all die, 

Chorus. 
Even so in Christ shall all be made alive. (1 Cor. xv. 21, 22.) 

Recit. (accompanied) and Air Mr. Santley. 

Behold ! I tell you a mystery : we shall not all sleep ; but we 
shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the 
last trumpet. 

The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incor- 
ruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put 
on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. (1 Cor. 
xv. 51, 52, 53-) 

Trumpet Obligato Mr. T. Harper. 

Chorus. 

Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us 
to God by His blood, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, 
and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. Blessing 
and honour, glory and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the 
throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever. Amen. (Rev. 
v. 12, 13.) 



PRICES OF ADMISSION : 
Reserved Scats (Area) --------- 21s. 

Ditto (Gallery) - - - - - - - - 10s. 6d. 

Unreserved Seats ----------- tjj. 

Doors open at Eleven o'clock. 



, r ,8 Third Day, Monday, April 2$. 

In the Evening, at Seven d Clock, 
A GRAND 

MISCELLANEOUS CONCERT 

OF MUSIC 
Associated •with the Words of Shakespeare.. 



Madame Parepa, 
Madame Sainton-Dolby, 
Madame Arabella Goddard 



ARTISTE S : 

Mr. Sims Reeves 
Mr. G. Perrex, 
Mr. Santley. 



PROGRAMME. 

PART I. 

Overture ' ; Romeo and Juliet" Macfarren. 

Trio " The Loadstars " (A Midsummer Night's Dream) 

Shield. 
Madame Parepa, Madame SAINTON-DOLBY, and Mr. Patey. 
O happy, happy, happy fair ! 

Your eyes are load-stars, and your tongue sweet air, 
More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear, 
When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear. 

Romance " Pieta. Rispetto " (Macbeth) Verdi. 

Mr. Santley. 

Recit. cd Ana (Macbeth) " Verdi. 

REGIT. 
Perfidi ! all' Anglo contro me v'unite ! 
Le potenze presaghe han profetato 
" Esser puoi sanguinario, feroce," 
" Nessun nato di donna ti nuoce ! " 
No ! non temo di voi 



Third Day, Monday, April 25. 



Ne del fanciullo che vi conduce ! 

Raffermar sal trono questassalto mi debbe, 

E sbalzanni per sempre ! 

Eppur la vita ; 

Sento nelle mie fibre innaridita ! 



Pieta, rispetto, amore, 
* Conforto a de cadenti 
Non spargeran d'un fiore 
La tua canuta eta.. 
Ne sul tuo regio sasso, 
Sperar soari accenti, 
Sol la bestemmia, ahi lassoo ! 
La nenia tua sara. 

Grand Scena "Portia" Weber. 

Madame Parepa. 

[Portia lamenting the loss of Brutus's confidence. See Ju'.ius Caesar, Act ii. Scene i-l 
RECIT. 

" I despair ! and shudder at the dreadful thought. 
Alas, his zeal for Rome may urge him to commit 
Some fearful deed, which love for me 
Makes him conceal." 

ARIA. 

" Could I tempt him to reveal 

The grief that robs him of his rest, 
I with tears will yet appeal, 

And wake soft pity in his breast. 
No smile now dwells upon his brow, 

Where care alone is seen, 
His heart is clos'd upon me now, 

Where once I rul'd as Queen. 
Love and fear are now contending 

In my aching heart to reign, 
Each its varied passion lending 

To give pleasure, hope, and pain." 



60 Third Day, Monday, April 25. 

Fantasia, Pianoforte "Where the Bee Sucks" (Tempest). 

Benedict. 
Madame Arabella Goddard. 



Song " Blow, Blow, thou Wintry Wind" (As You Like It) 

Dr. A me. 
Mr. Sms Reeves. 

" Blow, blow, thou wintry wind, 
Thou art not so unkind 

As man's ingratitude ! 
Thy tooth is not so keen, 
Because thou art not seen, 
Altho' thy breath be rude. 

" Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, 
Thou dost not bite so nigh, 

As benefits forgot. 
Tho' thou the waters warp, 
Thy sting is not so sharp 

As friend remembered not." 



Aria.,. u Who is Silvia?". ..(Two Gentlemen of Verona)... Schubert. 
Madame Sainton-Dolby. 
" Who is Silvia ? What is she, 

That all her swains commend her ? 
Holy, fair, and wise is she : 

The Heavens such grace did lend her 
That she might admired be. 

"Is she kind, as she is fair ? 

For beauty lives with kindness ; 
Love doth to her eyes repair 

To help him of his blindness ; 
And, being help'd, inhabits there. 

" Then to Silvia let us sing, 
That Silvia is excelling : 
She excels each mortal thing 

Upon the dull earth dwelling : 
To her let us garlands bring." 



Third Day, Monday, April 2j. 61 

Overture and Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream. 

Mendelssohn. 

SCHERZO. 

" We, fairies, that do run, 
By the triple Hecate's team, 
From the presence of the sun, — 
Following darkness like a dream, — 
Now are frolik" 

" The king doth keep his revels here to-night. 

" Come, now a roundel, and a fairy song, 
Then to your offices, and let me rest." 

INTERMEZZO. 

[Hermia seeks Lysander and loses herself in the wood; entrance of Bottom and 

his comrades; Titania lying asleep .] 

" What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here, 
So near the cradle of the Fairy Queen ? " 

NOTTURNO. 
[Hermia and Lysander asleep."] 

" Music ! ho ! music ! such as charmeth sleep." 

WEDDING MARCH. 

" I will wed thee in another key, 

With pomp, with triumph, and with revelling. 

Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth : 
Joy, gentle friends ! joy, and fresh days of love, 
Accompany your hearts." 



PART II. 

Overture " Coriolanus" Beethoven. 

Duet ( Midsummer Night's Dream) C. Horn. 

Madame Parepa and Madame Sainton-Dolby. 

" I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, 
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, 
There sleeps the Fairy Queen sometimes of the night, 
Lull'd in their flow'rs with dances and delight." 



6 2 



Third Day, Monday, April 



Song .... "Sigh no more, Ladies" .... (Much Ado about Nothing) 

Sir J. Stevenson. 
Mr. Sims Reeves. 

" Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more : 
Men were deceivers ever ; 
One foot in sea, and one on shore 
To one thing constant never ; 
Then sigh not so, 
But let them go, 
And be you blyth and bonny ; 
Converting all your sounds of woe 
Into, hey nonny, nonny. 

" Sing no more ditties, sing no mo 
Of clumps so dull and heavy ; 
The fraud of men was ever so, 
Since summer first was leafy. 
Then sisrh not so," &c. 



Glee "Ye Spotted Snakes" (Midsummer Night's Dream) 

Stevens. 

Madame Parepa, Madame Sainton-Dolby, Mr. Perren, 
and Mr. Patey. 



' Ye spotted snakes, with double tongue, 

Thorny hedge-hogs, be not seen ; 
Newts and blind worms do no wrong ; 
Come not near our Fairy Queen. 
Philomel, with melody, 
Sing in our sweet lullaby ; 
Lulla, lulla, lullaby : 
Never harm, nor spell nor charm, 
Ccme our lovely lady nigh 
So, good night with lullaby. 

Weaving spiders, come not here, 

Hence, you long legg'd spinners, hence 

Beetles black, approach not near. ; 
Worm, nor snail do no offence. 
Philomel, with melody," &c. 



Third Day, Monday, April 25. 63 

New Song "Take ! oh, Take!' - ' (Measure for Measure) 

A. Mellon. 
Mr. Santlev. 

[Composed expressly for the Shakespearian Tercentenary, 1864.} 

" Take, oh, take those lips away, 

That so sweetly were forsworn, 
And those eyes, the break of day, 

Lights that do mislead the morn : 
But my kisses bring again, 
Seals of love, but seal'd in vain. 

" Hide, oh, hide those hills of snow, 

Which thy frozen bosom bears, 
On whose tops the pinks that grow 

Are of those that April wears. 
But first set my poor heart free, 
Bound in those icy chains by thee." 



Canzonet " She never Told her Love " (Twelfth Night) 

Haydn. 

Madame Sainton-Dolby. 

" She never told her love, 
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, 
Feed on her damask cheek ; 
She sat like patience on a monument 
Smiling at grief." 



Song ....... " Come Live with Me " (The Passionate Pilgrim) 

J. L. Hatton. 
Mr. G.- Perren. 
" Come live with me, and be my love, 
And we will all the pleasures prove, 
That hill and valley, dale and field, 
And all the craggy mountains yield. 
There will we sit upon the rocks, 
And see the shepherds feed their flocks ; 
There will I make thee beds of roses, 
With a thousand fragrant posies. 

If these delights thy mind may move, 
Then live with me and be my love. 



6\ Third Day, Monday, April 25. 

" Come live with me, and be my dear, 
And we will revel all the year 
In plains and groves, on hills and dales, 
Where fragrant air breathes sweetest gales 
There shall you have the beauteous pine, 
The cedar and the spreading vine, 
The birds with heavenly tuned throats, 
Possess wood-echoes with sweet notes. 
If these delights," &c. 



Song " Venus and Adonis " Sir H. R. Bishop. 

Madame Parepa. 
" Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear ; 
Or, like a fairy, trip upon the green ; 
Or, like a nymph with bright and flowing hair, 
Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen." 

Shakespearean Overture H. Allridge. 

Re-arranged for this occasion by Mr. Alfred Mellon. 

Introducing the Airs, " Soft Flowing Avon," " Sweet Willie, oh ! " 

And " Ye Warwickshire Lads and ye Lasses." 



The Orchestra will number 120 Instrumentalists : — 22 First Vio- 
lins ; 22 Second Violins ; 16 Violas ; 16 Violoncellos ; 17 Double 
Basses ; 3 Flutes ; 2 Oboes : 2 Clarionets ; 2 Bassoons ; 4 Horns ; 
2 Trumpets ; 2 Cornets ; 3 Trombones ; Ophicleide, Side Drums, 
Triangle, Kettle Drums, Bass Drum, Cymbals, and Harp. 



Leader, Mr. Blagrove. — Principals, Second Violin, Mr. E. Payton. 
— Viola, Mr. R. Blagrove. — Violo?icello, Mr. W. Petitt. — 
Double Bass, Mr. A. Rowland.— Flute, Mr. Rockstro.— 
Oboe, Mr. A. NICHOLSON.— Clarionet, Mr. J. A. Owen.— 
Bassoon, Mr. J. Winterbottom. — Horn, Mr. Waterson. — 
Trombone, Mr. Healey. — Trumpet, Mr. T. Harper. — 
Pianoforte Accompanyist, Mr. Charles Coote. 

Conducto}-, Mr. Alfred Mellon. 



PRICES OF ADMISSION : 
Reserved Seats {Area) -------- 10s. 6d. 

Ditto {Gallery) -------- 5^. 

Unreserved Seats ---------- 2s. 6d. 

Doors open at Six o'clock. 



Fourth Day, Tuesday , April 26. 



In the Mo mi Jig, 

AN 

EXCURSION to CHARLECOTE 

WILL TAKE PLACE. 

oO^O^ ■ 

Through the kindness of H. Spencer Lucy, Esq., the 
Committee are enabled to announce that the 

GROUNDS AND HALL OF CHARLECOTE 

Will be thrown open to holders of Excursion Tickets. 



OTHER PLACES OF SHAKESPEARIAN INTEREST WILL ALSO BE 
VISITED, AS TIME MAY ALLOW. 



Carriages will start from Bridge Street at 
One o'clock. 



Tickets for the Excursion, 5's. each. 

f. 



66 Fourth Day, Tuesday, April 26. 

In the Evening, at Seven o'clock, will be represented, 

BY THE COMPANY OF THE 

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, LONDON,, 

Shakespeare's comedy of 

TWELFTH NIGHT; 

or, 

WHAT YOU WILL. 

Orsino Duke of Illyria Mr. Howe. 

ot j- (A Younsr Gentleman, 7 AT ,,,„_„„ 

Sebastian ... | broth a er to Viola '} Mr. Weathersby. 

Antonio .... A Sea Captain, friend to Sebastian .... Mr. Braid.. 

**»» ■ {frie S nd a S P Vio?a} ■■ Mr. Walter Gordon. 

Curio 7 T -i t ,, t^ , (Mr. Clark. 

Valentine. . . . \ Lords attending on the Duke | Mr> WoRRELL 

Sir Toby Belch . . Uncle to the Lady Olivia . . Mr. Rogers. 

Sir Andrew Aguecheek Mr. BuCKSTONE. 

Malvolio .... Steward to Olivia .... Mr. Chippendale. 
Fabian..} c . . Vvr ■ (Mr. W. FARREN. 

Clown. . . j Servants to 01lvia - JMr. Compton. 

A Priest Mr. Cullenford. 

First Officer Mr. Coe. Second Officer Mr. James.. 

Olivia A Rich Countess Miss H. Lindley. 

Viola In love with the Duke Miss Louisa Angel. 

Maria .... Olivia's woman Mrs. E. FlTZWlLLIAM. 

Lords, Priests, Sailors, Officers, Musicians, and other Attendants^ 
Scene. — A City in Illyria, and the Sea-coast near it. 

After which a Comedietta in one Act, adapted from the French of 
MM. Pierron and Laferriere, by Mr. Sothern, entitled 

MY AUNT'S ADVICE. 

Mr. Charles Arundel Mr. Howe. 

Captain Howard Leslie Mr. Sothern. 

Mr. Charles Arundel Miss Nelly MOORE. 

Jane Miss Coleman, 

Prices of Admission: — Reserved Seals (Area), 21s.; Ditto, Gallery, 

10s. 6d.; Unreserved Seats, 5s. 

doors open at six o'clock 



Fifth Day, Wednesday, April 27, 



In the Morning, at Two p.m., in the Shakespeare Rooms, 

READINGS 

From the Works of Shakespeare will be given. The arrange- 
ments, not yet being completed, will be announced in the Daily 
Papers. 

Before and between the Readings, Mr. Coote will perform an 
appropriate Selection of Music on the Pianoforte, which he has 
expressly arranged for the occasion. 

Doors open at half-past One o'clock p.m. 
Prices of Admission: — Reserved Seats, 5s.; Unreserved Seats, 2s. 6d. 

In the evening, it was intended that Shakespeare's Tragedy of 
" Hamlet" should have been performed by the Company of the 
Royal Lyceum Theatre, for which preparations on an appropriate 
scale had been made. The Committee, however, have the un- 
pleasant task of announcing that Mr. Fechter, after his repeated 
pledges to them to put "Hamlet" upon the stage, has, at the 
eleventh hour, withdrawn from his engagement. Since then, 
successful negotiations have been entered into with Mr. VINING, 
of the Princess's Theatre, who has kindly undertaken to place 
upon the stage the Plays of 

"ROMEO AND JULIET," 

AND THE 

"COMEDY OF ERRORS." 

By this change of arrangement, the Public will have the oppor- 
tunity of witnessing a performance of two of Shakespeare's Plays 
instead of one, as originally announced. 

QCf 3 Tickets isstiedfor " Hamlet" can be exchanged for any other 
Entertainment for which the price is the same, or the money 
■will be returned on application at the Ticket Office. 

E 2 



68 Fifth Day, Wednesday, April 27. 

In the Evening, at Seven o'clock, 

Shakespeare's Tragedy of "Romeo and Juliet," and the 
"Comedy of Errors," will be represented by the following 
distinguished Artistes : — 

ROMEO AND JULIET. 

Prince Escalus . . Mr. Robins. ! Friar Lawrence . Mr. Forrester. 

Paris Mr. Brooke. \ Apothecary Mr. Cathcart. 

Montague Mr. Lickfold. Peter Mr. D. Fisher. 

Capulet Mr. H. Mellon. Balthaza Mr. Chapman. 

Romeo Mr. J. Nelson. Ahrani MhTressidder. 

Mercutio Mr. Vining. Samson Mr. Tapping. 

Tybalt Mr. C. Seyton. Gregory Mr. Allen. 

Lady Capulet Miss Stafford. Juliet Madlle. Stella Colas. 

Nurse . .Mrs. H. Marston. 



After which will be performed, 

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, 

FROM THE TEXT OF SHAKESPEARE. 

The New and splendid Scenery by Messrs. F. Lloyds, Fenton, Hann, and Gray. 

N.B. — The Scenery has been so arranged that the Act-Drop will not descend 
during the Performance of tlu Piece. 

Solinus (Duke of Ephesus) Mr. Robins. 

ALgeon (a Merchant of Syracuse) Mr. H. Mellon. 

Antipholus of Ephesus . . I Twin Brothers and Sons to j Mr. J. Nelson. 

I .Pigeon and Emilia, but > 
Antipholus of Syracuse.. [ unknown to each other ) Mr. Vining. 
Dromio of Ephesus I Twin Brothers and Attendants ( Mr. Hy. Webb. 
Drotnio of Syracuse \ on the Antipholi / Mr. Chas.Webb. 

Balthazar . .Mr. Tapping. Angela . .Mr. C. Seyton. 

A Merchant Mr. Chapman. Dr. Pinch Mr. R. Cathcart. 

Officer Mr. Tressidder. 

AL milia... (Wife to ^Egeon, an Abbess at Ephesus).. .Miss Stafford. 
Adriana. ..(Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus). ..Miss Caroline Carson. 

Luciana.. (her Sister) .. Miss Helen Howard. 
Luce . . (her Servant) . . Miss Sydney. Lesbia . . Miss Emma Barnett. 

Officers, Lords, merchants, Male and Female Citizens, Executioner, Nuns, 
Attendants, &*c. 

Stage Manager Mr. George Ellis. 

Prices of Admission: — Reserved Seats {Area), 21s.; Ditto (Gallery), 
ios. 6d.: Unreserved Seats, 5s. 

DOO S OPEN AT SIX O'CLOCK. 



Sixth Day, Thursday, April 28. 



In the Morning, at Two o'' Clock, in the Shakespeare Rooms, 
there will be 

A CONCERT 



INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC AND GLEES, 

from Shakespeare's plays. 
PROGRAMME. 

PART I. 

Overture . . . . " The Merry Wives of Windsor " Nicolai. 

Part Song " The Cloud-capped Towers " } Stevens 

Glee From " Oberon " ) 

Instrumental Fantasia on Shakespearian Airs, with \ 

Solos for Pianoforte, Flute, Clarionet, Cornet-a- / r r 
Pistons, Violin, Violoncello, Contra Basso, and j C " Loote - 
Euphonium. Arranged expressly for this occasion by J 
( An Ode, written expressly by John \ 
" Shakespeare"| Brougham, Esq., for the Tercen - \ Mellon. 

( tenary Festival ) 

Overture "As you Like It " Harold Thomas. 

PART II. 

t, _ c „ ( "When Daisies pied " ) ,, ,. 

Part Songs.. { „ Who Js ^ Wi J, \\\\\\.\) Macfarren. 

Duett Cornet-a-Pistons & Euphonium, "Merry \ 

Wives of Windsor." Performed by C. Coote, jun.,\ Percy. 
and Alfred Phasey ) 

Glee " Hark ! the Lark " Kucken. 

Finale 

CONDUCTORS-MR. CHARLES COOTE AND MR. STOCKLEY. 



("Wedding March" — " Midsummer ) ,> , , , 
I Night's Dream." } Mendelssohn. 



Prices of Admission : — Reserved Seats, 5/.; Unreserved Seats, is.6d. 

DOOftS OPEN AT HALF-PAST ONE P.M. 



Sixth Day, Thursday, April 



In the Evening, at Seven o'clock, 
SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDY OF 

AS YOU LIKE IT 

WILL BE REPRESENTED. 



THE CHARACTERS WILL BE SUSTAINED BY THE FOLLOWING 
DISTINGUISHED ARTISTES : 

Rosalind Daughter of the banished Duke. . . . Mrs. Charles Young. 

Celia.... Daughter of Frederick Miss Rebecca Powell. 

Fhebe A Shepherdess Miss Bufton. 

Audry A Country Wench Miss Charlotte Saunders. 

The Duke Living in Exile Mr. James Bennett. 

Jaques . . ) Lords attending upon the ( . .Mr. Creswick. 

Amiens ..} Duke in his banishment ( . .Mr. W. H. Cummings. 

Orlando. . . .Youngest Son of Sir Rowland de Bois . .Mr. W. Farren. 

Adam Servant to Oliver Mr. Chippendale. 

Touchstone , A Clown Mr. Compton. 

Le Beau .... A Courtier attending upon Frederick .... Mr. Belford. 

Oliver Mr. Robert Dolman. 

Charles A Wrestler Mr. H. Payne. 

Frederick.. f Brother to the Duke, and Usurper of » M Nanton . 
( his dominions. J 

Jaques De Bois. ..... Son of Sir Rowland Mr. Siddons. 

Eustace, Mr. Poynter. Louis, Mr. Eldred. Dennis, Mr. Concannen. 
Covin ...... ) Q . , , t , f Mr. Williams. 

Sylvius....) Shepheids. { M r. Warner. 

William.. A. Country Fellow in love with Audry.. Mr. Worboys. 

Lords belonging to the tivo Dukes, Ladies, Pages, Foresters, and other 
Attendants. 

Scene. — First, near Oliver's House; afterwards, partly in the 
Usurper's Court, and partly in the Forest of Arden. 



The Play produced under the superintendence of Mr. Creswick. 

Costumes gratuitously supplied by Mr. S. May. 

.Scenery under the direction of Mr. O'Connor. 



Prices of Admission : — Reserved Seats (Area), 21s. y Ditto 
{Gallery), \os. 6d.j Unreserved Scats, $s. 

DOORS OPEN AT SIX O'CLOCK. 



Seventh Day, Friday, April 29, 



At Nine d Clock in the Evening. 

THERE WILL BE 

A GRAND FANCY DRESS BALL 

IN THE PAVILION, 

To which no one will be admitted except in Fancy Dress, Court 
Dress, or Uniform. (Although Costumes will not be strictly 
limited to those of a Shakespearian character, yet it is requested 
that, so far as possible, they may be adopted.) 

No Mask, Dominoes, or Pantomime characters will be admitted. 



LADY PATRONESSES: 



The Countess of Aylesford. 
The Countess of Lichfield. 
The Countess of Warwick. 
Lady Willoughby de Broke. 
Lady Vernon. 
Lady Wrottesley. 
Lady Conyers. 
Lady Gwendoline Petre. 
Lady Charles Paulet. 
Lady Mordaunt. 



Lady 
Hon. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 



Steele Graves. 
Mrs. Adderley. 
West, A /scot. 
Wise, Woodcote. 
Hamilton Yatman. 
Keighley Peach. 
Eyton. 

Dickins, Cherington. 
Flower. 



PATRONS AND STEWARDS: 



Lord Leigh, Lord Lieutenant 
of Warwickshire. 

The High Sheriff of War- 
wickshire. 

The Earl of Lichfield. 

The Earl of Craven. 

The Earl of Warwick. 

The Earl of Aylesford. 

The Earl of Shrewsbury 
and Talbot. 

The Earl Delawarr. 

The Earl of Coventry. 

Lord Wrottesley. 

Lord Dufferin. 

Lord Northwick. 

The Hon. E. Chandos Leigh. 

Colonel The Hon. H. H. 
Clifford. 

.Sir N. W. Throckmorton, 
Bart. 



Sir M. Steele Graves, Bart. 
Sir J. Eardley Wilmot, Bart. 
T. Bazley, Esq., M.P. 

W. SCHOLEFIELD, ESQ., M.P. 

Atty, James, Esq., Rugby. 

Arkwright, J. T., Esq. 

Bill, John, Esq., Coventry. 

Caldecott, C. M., Esq., 
Rugby. 

Clarke, Colonel, Scots Greys. 

Flower, E. F., Esq. 

Peach, Captain Keighley. 

Peel, A, Robert, Esq., Wor- 
cester. 

Starkey, J. F., Esq. 

Smith, Gustavus T, Esq. 

Thompson, Dr. 

Vaughton, R. Dymock, Esq. 

West, J. R., Esq., A/scot. 



Seventh Day, Friday, April 29. 



G alton, Darwin, Esq. 
Greenway, Kelynge, Esq. 
Granville, Major. 
Hartopp, Major. 
Hamilton, Captain. 
Harding, W. J., Esq. 
Hodge, Major-General,C.B., 

Aldershot. 
Lucy, H. Spencer, Esq., 

Charlecote. 
Machen, Major. 
Mason, Lieut.-Col. 



Muntz, P. H., Esq., Edstow. 

Minster, R. H., Esq., Mayor 
of Coventry. 

Musgrave, C., Esq. 

Parker, Francis, Esq., Wor- 
cester. 

Philips, R.N., Esq., Man- 
chester. 

Wise, H. C., Esq. 

Wright, T. Esq., Tidmington. 

Yatman, W., Hamilton, Esq. 



ACTING STEWARDS. 



Lord Willoughby de Broke. 
The Hon. Hugh Somerville. 
Sir Chas. Mordaunt, Bart., 

M.P. 
Sir R. N. C. Hamilton, Bart., 

K.C.B. 



Child, W. Henry, Esq. 
Flower, Edgar, Esq. 
Kingsley, Dr. 
Lomax, Captain. 
Mordaunt, J. Murray, Esq. 



The Programme of the Dance Music will be as follows : — 

English Country Dance „„ 

Quadrille " Cologne " Coote. 

Valse ....." Ariel " Gung'l. 

Lancers " Original " Hart. 

Galop " Locomotive " T. Broivnc. 

Quadrille " Shakespeare " Coote. 

(Arranged expressly for this occasion. ) 

Valse " Faust " Gounod. 

Lancers " Old English " Coote. 

Valse " Humming Bird " Coote, Jun. 

Quadrille " Dramatic College " A. Mellon. 

Galop " Prince Imperial " Coote. 

Lancers Tinney. 

Valse " Kate Kearney " Coote. 

Quadrille " Faust " Gounod. 

Galop " Bel Demonio " Montgomery, 

Lancers " The Cure " Coote. 

Valse " Fairy Fountain " Frenvin. 

18 Galop " Tuberose" Balfe. 

19 Quadrille " She Stoops to Conquer " . . Macfarren. 

20 Valse " Village Rose " Coote. 

2 1 Galop " Extravaganza " Coote. 

Tickets (not transferable) will be issued only on production of a 

Voucher, or Letter, signed either by the President, one of the Vice- - 
presidents, or Local Committee, or by a Lady Patroness or Steward; : 
price, including Refreshments and Supper, 21s. Spectators in the 
Galleries (Evening Dress), 10s. 6d. and 5s. 

Coote and Tinney's celebrated Quadrille Band has been engaged. . 



Popular Entertainments. 



On Saturday, April 30, and Monday, May 2, 

THERE WILL BE A SERIES OF 

POPULAR 

ENTERTAINMENTS 

IN THE PAVI LION, 

THESE ENTERTAINMENTS WILL INCLUDE :— 

On Saturday, April 30///, a Promenade Concert; 
On Monday, May 2nd, an Ascent of Mr. CoxwelVs New Balloon j 
and a Public Ball. 

$gg* In order to meet a generally expressed wish, and that 
the public may have an opportunity of witnessing the PERFORM- 
ANCE of Shakespeare's Plays in the Grand Pavilion, the 
Committee have arranged for TWO EXTRA NIGHTS, under 
the superintendence of Mr. CRESWICK, who has, in the kindest 
spirit, accepted that responsibility, and consented to appear. 

On Tuesday, May yd, A Tragedy ; 
On Wednesday, May \th, a Comedy, 

Being the last night of the Dramatic Entertainments, and of the Festival. 

These performances will be supported by first-class Artistes of 
Metropolitan and Provincial celebrity. 

Prices of Admission : — Reserved Seats, 4s. ; First Tier, 3s. ; 
Area, 2s. ; Lower Tier, is. 

FULL PARTICULARS OF THESE ENTERTAINMENTS WILL BE 
PUBLISHED IN THE PAPERS AND IN HAND-BILLS ; AND 
ARRANGEMENTS WILL BE MADE FOR EXCURSION TRAINS 
FROM THE NEIGHBOURING TOWNS. 



74 General Arrangements. 



During the whole of the Festival, there will be 

AN EXHIBITION IN THE TOWN-HALL 

Of many of the well-known 

PORTRAITS OF SHAKESPEARE, 

AND EMINENT ACTORS OF HIS PLAYS, 

UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF MR. HOGARTH. 

*£* The Exhibition will be open from ioa.m. to 6p.m. Admission 
before One o'clock, Half-a-cro\vn ; after One o'clock, One Shilling. 
Catalogue, Sixpence. 



GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS. 



IN order to afford accommodation for visitors at moderate charges, 
Registers of Lodgings at Stratford-upon-Avon and the neighbouring 
towns, have been opened at the undermentioned places : — 

Stratford-upon-Avon Mr. MORGAN, High Street. 

Warwick Messrs. Cook & Son, High Street. 

Leamington Mr. Glover, Victoria Terrace. 

Birmingham Mr. THOS. Harrison, Colmore Row. 

Worcester Messrs. Leicester & Son. 



FOR ARRANGEMENTS OF TRAINS, 
See Advertisement Pages. 



The following appointments have been made in connection with 
the Festival : — 

Messrs. Mulloney and Johnson, and Mr. Browett, of Coventry, 
have manufactured a badge and ribbon, and a scarf for gentlemen, 



General Arrangements. 75 

and a sash for ladies, for the Fancy Ball, which the Committee 
recommend should be worn on the occasion. 

An arrangement has also been made with Messrs. Mulloneyand 
Johnson for the exhibition, during the days of the Festival, of a 
power Jacquard Loom in full work, showing the process of weaving 
the " Badge" adopted by the Committee. 

Professor Miller, of the Government School of Design, has pro- 
duced a bust of Shakespeare, which has the approval of the Com- 
mittee. Copies may be obtained from the publishers, Messrs. 
Howell and James, Regent Street, London, or their agents. 

Messrs. Burton and Sons have been appointed Photographers 
during the Festival. 

Messrs. Simmons and Sons, No. 4, Tavistock-street, Covent 
Garden, London, are appointed Costumiers for the Ball. 

A Medal has been struck by Mr. Brown, Crystal Palace, Syden- 
ham, which the Committee recommend should be worn at the 
several Entertainments during the Festival. 

The Banquet and Refreshments will be supplied by Mr. S. H. 
Mountford, of Worcester. 

Architects of the Pavilion — Messrs. Thompson and Coulbourne,. 
Stratford-upon-Avon. 

Contractors — Messrs. Branson and Murray, Birmingham. 

Decorator — Messrs. Chas. Brothers, Leamington. 



SHAKESPEARIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY: 

BEING A LIST OF BOOKS, ETC., RELATING TO THE POET AND HIS 
TIME, NOW ON SALE. 



Shakespeare, the Folio of 1623. 

The exact Reprint of this all-important 
Edition. — Part I., the Comedies, price 
10s. 6d.; now ready, Part II., containing 
the Histories, price ios. 6d. ; to be fol- 
lowedshortly by Part III., the Tragedies, 
completing the work. [L. Booth, 307, 
Regent Street, W.) 

Shakespeare's Jest Books: being 

Reprints of the early Jest Books sup- 
posed to have been used by Shakespeare : 
"A Hundred MeryTalys," from the only 
known copy; also "Mery Tales and 
Quicke Answeres," from the rare editions 
of 1530 and 1567. Edited, with Intro- 
duction and Notes, by W. C. Hazlitt. 
Elegantly printed on toned paper, thick 
fcap. 8vo, half-bound, uncut. Just Pub- 
lished, 1864. [Willis and Sotheran, 
136, Strand.) 7s. 6d. 

Shakespeare's Works. — Above 

One Hundred Various Editions, from the 
First Folio (1623) to the Latest Published 
(April, 1864), many in fine condition. On 
Sale by Willis & Sotheran, 136, Stra?id. 

Shakesperiana, from 1564 to 

1864. A Bibliographical Essay. By Franz 
Thimm. In the press. As only a limited 
number will be printed. Subscribers are 
requested to forward their Addresses to 3, 
Brook Street, Grosveuor Square. About 
4s. or ss. 

History of William Shakespeare, 

Player and Poet. Second Edition. With 
New Facts and Traditions. By S. W. 
Fullom, author of "The Great Highway," 
"The Human Mind," "The Marvels of 
Science," &c. Now ready, in 8vo. 
[Saunders, Otley, and Co., 66, Brook 
Street, W.) 7s. 6d. 

Shakespeare Weighed in an 

Even Balance. By a Country Vicar. 
"Who hath not heard it spoken, how deep 
you were within the bounds of God?" 
Just ready, in demy 8vo. [Saunders, 
Otley, and Co., 66, Brook Street, W.) 

A Study of Hamlet. By John 

Conolly, M.D., D.C.L. [Ediud. Moxon 
and Co., Dover Street, II'.) 5s. 

Marsh's Reference Shakspere, 

with 11,600 References, 1 vol. cloth, sup. 
roy. 8vo. [Simpkin, Paternoster Row ; 
J. Hey wood, Manchester.) 20s. 

Shakspeare's Plays, with Notes 

by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. 
The Variorum Edition, 15 vols., 8vo calf; 
from the Library of the late W. M. 
Thackeray, Esq., with his Stamp on the 
Titles. [G. A. Davics, 120, Wardour 
Street, W.) £4 4s. 



Shakspeare for the Young, and 

for Reading in Families : being a Selec- 
tion of the best Plays (17 in number), 
cleared from all objectionable passages, 
and occasionally abridged without injury 
to the plot ; with short explanatory notes. 
By the Right Rev. Charles Wordsworth, 
D.C.L., Bishop of St. Andrew's. In 
preparation. [Smith, Elder, and Co. r 
65, Coruhill.) 

Shakspere : his Birthplace and 

its Neighbourhood. By John R. Wise, 
Author of "The New Forest ; its History 
and Scenery," &c. With 25 Illustrations 
by W. J. Linton. Printed on toned paper, 
and handsomely bound in cloth gilt, 
bevelled boards, crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. A 
cheaper edition may be had, fcp. 8vo, 
limp cloth, 2s. 6d. [Smith, Elder, and 
Co., 65, Cornhill.) 

Shakespeare Commentaries. By 

G. G. Gervinus, Professor at Heidelberg. 
Translated under the Author's superin- 
tendence, by F. E. Bunnett. Recently 
published, 2 vols., demy 8vo. [Smith, 
Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill.) 24s. 

Shakespeare Characters, chiefly 

those subordinate. By Charles Cowden 
Clarke. Companion volume to all copies 
of Shakespeare. Demy 8vo, Roxburgh 
binding. [Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, 
Cornhill.) 12s. 

On Shakspeare's Knowledge and 

Use of the Bible. By the Right Rev. 
Charles Wordsworth, D.C.L, Bishop of 
St. Andrew's. Now ready, crown 8vo. 
[Smith, Elder, &> Co., 65, Coruhill.) 5s. 

A Gift-Book for this Season, and 

for all Seasons. — Now ready, a quaint 
little volume, square i2mo, containing 
Nine Photographs, with various Orna- 
mentation to each Page, in binding of an 
Elizabethan stamp, The Seven Ages of 
Man, described by William Shakespeare. 
Depicted by Robert Smirke. [L. Booth, 
307, Regent Street, W. ; and J>\ Ay ling, 
493, Oxford Street, W.C.) 5s. 

A Reproduction by Photography 

of the celebrated Shakespeare Gallery, 
consisting of 98 Photographs, with de- 
scriptive text of each scene, reduced from 
Boydell's celebrated Shakespeare Gal- 
lery, published in 1804-5 at Sixty Guineas, 
and now reproduced with every detail of 
those exquisite prints perfectly rendered. 
Cloth, gilt edges. [L. Booth, 307, Regent 
Street, W. ; and i\ Aylins;, 493, Oxford 
Street, W.C.) £2 2s. 



Shakespearian Bibhograpliy. 



Cassell's Illustrated Shake- 
speare. Edited, with Notes, by Charles 
and Mary Cowden Clarke ; with Illustra- 
tions by H. C. Selous. Printed on fine 
Toned Paper. In Weekly Numbers, 
price id. ; Monthly Parts, price sd. and 
6d. ; and in Quarterly Sections, is. 3d. 
First Section now ready. (Cassell, Fetter, 
and Galpiu, London, E.C.) 

Pearls of Shakespeare : a Col- 
lection of the most brilliant Passages 
found in his Plays. Illustrated with 48 
Engravings from Designs by Kenny 
Meadows. i2mo, handsomely bound in 
cloth, bevelled, extra gilt. [Cassell, 
Fetter, and Gaipin, La Belle Sauvage 
Yard, London, E.C.) 3s. 6d. 

Shakespere's Works. — The 

various Modern Editions, complete in 
sets, and in single volumes, sold in cloth, 
or in very superior bindings, at reduced 
prices, by R. J. Bush, 32, Charing Cross, 
S. W. [close to Whitehall), London. 

Dyce's Shakespeare. — "The 

best text of Shakespeare which has yet 
appeared. . . Mr. Dyce's edition is a great 
work, worthy of his reputation, and for 
the present it contains the standard text." 
— Times, Jan. 20, 1864. A new edition, 
to be completed in 8 vols. , demy 8vo. , 10s. 
each, The Works of Shakespeare. Edited 
by the Rev. Alex. Dyce. This edition is 
not a mere reprint of that which appeared 
in 1857 ; on the contrary, it will present a 
text very materially altered and amended 
from beginning to end, with a large body 
of critical Notes, almost entirely new, 
and with a Glossary, in which the lan- 
guage of the poet, his allusions to cus- 
toms, &c, will be fully explained. To be 
published every alternate month. Vols. 
I., II., and III. now ready. Cliapman 
and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. 

The Students' and School Shake- 
speare, with Notes selected from the best 
Authors. By Rev. J. R. Pitman, A.M. 
Third edition. (Rice <5^ Co., 123, Mount 
Street, Grosz>euor Square.) 7s. 6d. 

The Cambridge Shakespeare. — 

On April 25th will appear Vol. IV., 8vo, 
cloth, 10s. 6d., containing King John, 
Richard II., the Two Parts of Henry IV. 
and Henry V, the Works of William 
Shakespeare. Edited by William George 
Clark, M.A., and William Aldis Wright, 
M. A. , Trinity College, Cambridge. ' ' An 
Edition on a plan which differs altogether 
from that adopted by any — a plan so ex- 
cellent in itself, and so well carried out, 
that we have no hesitation in saying that 
it is likely to be, when completed, the 
most useful one to the scholar and intel- 
ligent reader which has yet appeared." — 
Athenaeum. To be completed in 8 vols., 
demy 8vo, 10s. Cd. each. (Macmillau 
and Co., London and Cambridge.) 



Shakespere : his Birthplace, 

Home, and Grave : a Pilgrimage to Strat- 
ford-on-Avon in the autumn of 1863. By 
the Rev. J. M. Jephson, B.A., F.S.A. 
With 15 Photographic Illustrations. Small 
4to, cloth gilt, 2is. ; morocco, 31s. 6d. — 
Shakespere's Sonnets. — Photographic 
Fac-simile of the First Printed Edition of 
1609. (Rec-ue and Co., 5, Henrietta 
Street, Covent Garden.) 10s. 6d. 

William Shakspeare : his Life 

and Works. By Victor Hugo. Autho- 
rised English Translation ; 1 vol. Hurst 
&* Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough St- 

Shaksperiana. — An interesting 

Collection of Shaksperiana will be in- 
cluded in April Catalogue of scarce and 
curious Books ; may be had by post for 
one stamp. Richard Simpson, 10, King 
William Street, Charing Cross, W. C. 

The First Folio (1623).— Shake- 

speare in Photo-Lithography, under the 
supervision of H. Staunton. One Vol., 
folio, handsomely bound, 960 pp. [Day 
and Son, Lithographers to tin: Queen, 
London. ) Price JE8 8s. 

Shakespeare : the only Contem- 
porary Portrait, an exquisite Photo-Litho- 
graphic Reproduction, under the super- 
vision of Mr. Staunton, of Droeshout's 
celebrated Line Engraving, authenticated 
by Ben Jonson's famous lines (placed 
beneath the Portrait). Printed on fine 
Plate and India Paper. (Day and Son, 
Litlwgraplicrs to the Queen, 6, Gate 
Street, London, IV.C.) Price 2s. 6d. 

Shakespeare's Will ; also the 

Deed of Purchase and Deed of Mort- 
gage ; together with the famous Droeshout 
and Chandos Portraits, all Reproduced 
in Photo-Lithography and Photography, 
under the supervision of Mr. Howard 
Staunton, with Transcripts in Letterpress 
of the Will and the Register of the Will ; 
handsomely bound. (Day andSou, Litho- 
graphers to the Queen, London.) 21s. 

Shakespeare — Stratford as con- 
nected with him ; and the Bard's Rural 
Haunts. Bv Edwin Lees. (E. Adams, 
Bookseller, S tratfo} d-upon-Avou.) Price 
2S., Illustrated. 

Shakespeare Tercentenary : a 

" Chronicle of the Time ;" being a Com- 
plete History of the Celebration. By 
Robert E. Hunter (late Secretary to the 
Stratford-on-Avon Committee;. In 1 vol., 
crown 8vo, 2s. 6d. Drawing-room copy. 
Illustrated, 7s. 6d. (£. Adams, Book- 
seller, Stratford-upon-A von ; Whittakcr 
and Co., London.) 

A Catalogue, relating to Shake- 
speare and his Works, post free for 4d. (F. 
S. Ellis, 33, King St., Covent Garden.) 



78 



Shakespearian Bibliography. 



Shakespeare. — In Two Volumes, 

uniform with the royal octavo editions of 
his Works, the whole of the Vocal Music 
to his Plays, containing many beautiful 
traditional Melodies introduced by Mrs. 
Jordan and Mrs. Bland ; as also all the 
little songs, quaint bits, and snatches of 
singing that occur in these Plays, as col- 
lected by the Editor (1799), from recitals 
and written memoranda of those and the 
following celebrated performers : Messrs. 
Bannister, Parsons, and Suett. Published 
for the Editor, by J. Waller, 58, Fleet 
Street. Price One Guinea. 

Shakespeare's Seven Ages of 

Life ; with Illustrations by John Gilbert, 
&c. Engraved by Thomas Gilks. (Dt in 
and Son, 11, Ludgate Hill.) Price 6d. 

A Catalogue of Old Books, in- 
cluding many Shakespearian Works, sent 
free for one stamp by John Wilson, 93, 
Great Russell Street, W.C. 

A perfect Photographic Fac- 
simile of the only authentic Portrait of 
Shakespeare, from the Original by Droe- 
shout ; mounted on India paper. (F. S. 
Fills, 33, King Street, Covent Garden.) 
5s. 6d. 

The Tercentenary Memorial 

Ribbon, for Framing or Albums (as a 
souvenir of the Festival), manufactured 
by Mulloney and Johnson, Coventry, 
tinder the special sanction and patronage 
of the Committee, contains Portrait, and 
View of the Church and Birthplace, and 
is admitted to be one of the finest speci- 
mens of weaving ever produced. May 
be obtained from all Drapers, or from the 
Manufacturers, 3, Ironmonger Rcnv, 
Coventry. Price is. 6d. 

Busts and Statuettes of Shake- 
speare. — E. G. Zimmermanns' Manufac- 
tures in Metallic Art ; Innumerable 
variety of Groups of Figures, Animals ; 
also other objects both Useful and Orna- 
mental. (2, St. Paul's Buildings, Little 
Carter Lane, London, E. C.) Wholesale 
only. 

Shakespearian Illustrations. — 

Now ready, Part I. , containing 20 choice 
Photographic Illustrations to the most 
important Plays. {Gladwell, 382, New 
Cross Road, S.F.) 21s. 

Shakspeare's Birthplace. — How 

to make a Model of Shakspeare's Birth- 
place. 38 Coloured Engravings. (H.G. ' 
Clarke and Co., 252, Strand.) 6d. 

Ann Hathaway's Cottage. — How 

to make a Model of Ann Hathaway's 
Cottage. 38 Coloured Engravings. (H. 
G. Clarke and Co., 252, Strand.) 6d. 

Shakspeare's Birthplace. — An 

Artist's Pilgrimage to Stratford-on-Avon. 
By F. Shepherd. 8 Engravings. (H. G. 
Clarke and Co., 252, Strand.) id. 



The National Shakspeare Me- 
morial Bust, by FelixM. Miller, Professor 
of Sculpture, Government School of Art 
Published under the special sanction of 
the "National Shakspeare" and "Strat- 
ford-on-Avon Tercentenary Committees," 
by Howell, James, and Co. Copies are 
issued, in the order of Registration, to 
Subscribers only, and executed in Wedg- 
wood Ceramic Statuary, 12 in. high, or 
French Terra Cotta, 15 in. high, price 
One Guinea each; Bronze, 8 in. high, 
Three Guineas. Subscribers' Names re- 
ceived by the Agents in London and chief 
Provincial Towns (where Copies of the 
Bust can be seen), or by the Publishers, 
Howell, James, &> Co., Goldsmitlis. 6rc., 
by appointment to the Queen and Prince 
and Princess of Wales, 5,7, and 9, Regent 
Street. Photographs and Prospectuses 
forwarded (post free) on application. 

Shakspeare. — The only authen- 
tic Carte de Visite Portrait, from the 
famous Engraving by Droushart in the 
first Folio Edition, 1623, whhjac-simile 
of Autograph in British Museum. Pho- 
tographed and published by IF. Walker 
and Sons, 64, Margaret Street, Caven- 
dish Square, IV. Price is. , of all Dealers 
in Cartes de Visite. 

Shakespeare Curiosities. — Old 

Books, Manuscripts, Cotemporary Plays, 
Rare Portraits, Early Commentaries ; 
all at very low prices, at John Camden 
Hotten's Shop, in Piccadilly, London. 
Catalogues monthly. 

Shakespeare in the Magic Lan- 
tern. 17 Photographic Views of Strat- 
ford-on-Avon, &c. Prospectus, 2 stamps. 
{S.Highley, Optician, 18, Green Street, 
Leicester Square, W.C.) 5s. plain, and 
8s. 6d. each, coloured. 

Set of Twelve Stereoscopic Pic-^ 

tures, Shakspeare's Birthplace, Tomb, 
&c, 10s. ; album size, 6s. the set. 

The Desk used by him at Strat- 
ford School. Stereo., is. 6d. ; album, is. 

Chandos Portrait, album size, 6d. 
Shakspeare's Jug and Cup. 

Album, is. ; stereo., is. 6d. 

SI Un'rrlfss Ut\ic. 

The Cast from the Face of Shak- 
speare after Death. (In the private 
possession of Professor Owen.) By 
means of a hand-glass, several hairs 
from Shakspeare's face can be distinctly 
seen attached to the cast, in the photo- 
graph. Price 2s. 6d. each Stereo. ; 
is. 6d. album size. 

Stereoscopic Co. (Photographers 
to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales), 54, 
Cheapside, and no, Regent Street. All 
sent post free on remittance of stamps, 
&c. Post-office Orders or Cheques, 
please cross Union Bank of London, j 



Advertisements. 



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ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL. 

This Elegant and Fragrant Oil possesses 
extraordinary properties for promoting the 
growth, restoring, preserving, and beautifying 
the Human Hair. Price 3s. Od., 7s., 10s. fld. 
(equal to four small), and 21s. per Bottle. 

ROWLANDS' KALYDOR. 

This Oriental Botanical Preparation realizes, 
a HEALTHY PURITY of Complexion, and a 
softness and delicacy of Skin. Soothing, cool- 
ing, and purifying, it eradicates all Cutaneous 
Eruptions, Freckles, Tan. Pimples, Spots, and 
Discolorations. Price 4s. Od. & 8s. Od. per Bottle. 

ROWLANDS' ODONTO, 

OR PEARL DENTIFRICE, 
Compounded of Oriental Ingredients— it imparts a Pearl-like Whiteness to the Teeth. 

eradicates Tartar and Spots of incipient decay, strengthens the Gums, and giros a pleasing 
fragrance to tic Breath. Price 2s. Od. per Box. 
Soul bv A. Rowland & Suns. 20, Hutton i.anlen, Loudon, and by Chemists and Perfumers. 

V Ask for ROWLANDS' Articles. [27 

EDUCATIONAL WORKS OF Dr. CORN WELL, F.R.G.S. 

MAP BOOK FOR BEGINNERS. Price Is. 6d. ; 2s. 6d. coloured. 
BOOK OF BLANK MAPS. Price Is. 
BOOK OF MAP PROJECTIONS. Price Is. 
GEOGRAPHY FOR BEGINNERS. 14th Edition. Price Is. 

SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. 34th Edition. 3s. 6d. ; or with Thirty Maps on Steel, 5s. 6d. 
SCHOOL ATLAS. Price 2s. 6d. plain; 4s. coloured. 
THE YOUNG COMPOSER. 25th Edition. Price Is. 6d. 

KEY TO THE YOUNG COMPOSER. Price 3s. [Is. 9d. cloth. 

ALLEN & CORNWELL'S SCHOOL GRAMMAR. 34th Edition. Price 2s. red leather; 
GRAMMAR FOR BEGINNERS. 40th Edition. Price Is. cloth; 9d. sewed. 
SKLECT ENGLISH POETRY, for the use of Schools. 12ih Edition. Price 4s. 
SCHOOL ARITHMETIC. 6th Edition. Price Is. 6d. 
KEY TO SCHOOL ARITHMETIC. Price 4s. 6d. 

THE SCIENCE OF ARITHMETIC. 8th Edition, corrected and enlarged. Price 4s. Gd. 
London: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & Co. ; HAMILTON, ADAMS, & Co. 

Edinburgh: OLIVER & BOYD. [46 

SHAKESPEARE'S WILL; 

WITH 

THE DEEDS OF PURCHASE, 

AND 

MORTGAGE OF HIS LONDON HOUSE. 



PEBMISSION having been obtained from the proper authorities 
to photograph, these interesting documents, which contain the only authentic 
examples of Shakespeare's handwriting, Messrs. DAY and SON have the pleasure to 
announce the publication of them by the admirable process of Photo-Lithography. 
To add to the interest of these Shakespearian relics, they will be accompanied by 
explanatory letter-press and a printed version of each ; the volume will also con- 
tain both the Droeshout and Chandos Portraits, beautifully reproduced in Photo- 
Lithography. The whole, produced under the personal supervision of Mr. H. 
STAUNTON, will be bound in cloth, with elegant and appropriate decorations, and 
issued at One Guinea per copy. 

LONDON: DAY AND SON. LITHOGRAPHERS TC THE QUEEN. 



THE only contemporary PORTBAIT reproduced in Photo- 
Lithography, under the personal supervision of Mr. H. STAUNTON, from 
the celebrated Line Engraving by Droeshout, and authenticated by Ben Jonson's 
famous lines (placed beneath the Portrait), printed on fine plate and India paper 
price 2s. 6d. 

LONDON : DAY AND EON, LITHOGRAPHERS TO THE QUEEN, 6, GATE STREET, W.C. [43 



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Advertisements. 



RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS. 

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. 

RETURN TICKETS to STRATFORD-ON-AVON, issued on Friday, April 22nd, 
and intervening days, will be available until Monday, May 2nd, inclusive. 

In addition to the Ordinary Trains to Stratford-on-Avon, Special Trains will run on 
April 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30. 

ORDINARY TRAINS TO STRATFORD-ON-AVON-tWeefc Days). 



STATIONS. 


Class 
1&2 


Class 
1&2 


Class 

1&2 


Class 
1&2 


Class 
1 &2 


Class 
1&2 


755 
8 

655 

7 25 
7 15 


a.m. 
G 

718 

8 25 

9 54 

10 

o'io 

9 50 
10 20 
835 


a.m. 
9 30 
8 45 

10 27 

11 15 

12 15 

7"i5 
S55 

11 32 

12 5 

8" 80 


12 

11 15 

12 50 

3 15 
3 20 
10 50 
12 

2 40 

3 10 
2 10 

12 85 
10 40 


p.m. 

2 

3 "0 

4 5 

5 40 
5 45 

i 30 

5 20 

6 5 

135 


p.m. 
6 15 
3 45 

735 
8 45 
8 50 

3 5 

4 15 

6 55 

7 25 

4" 45 
























Bath 



ORDINARY TRAINS FROM 


STRATFORD-ON-AVON-dFeei Days.) 




STATIONS. 

STRATFORD dep. 

Bath arr. 


1 &2 


1 & 2 1 1 & 2 


lftl 


1&2 


1 &2 


1 & 2 1 & 2 


1&2 


1 &2 


a.m. 
7 

12 25 
11 40 

"840 
9 11 

10 15 

11 48 
1 

7 40 
745 

8 55 

9 35 


a.m. 
8 41 

950 


a.m. 

8 45 

9" 45 
10 55 
12 3S 

2 30 

3 45 

9 54 

10 

11 55 

1 7 


a.m. 

11 55 
5 15 
5 40 
4 45 

12 55 

1 25 

2 28 

4 10 

5 20 
12 40 
12 45 

1 52 

2 45 


p.m. 
12 15 

"6"25 
6 50 
3 22 
1 40 


p.m. 

1 5 
7 

7 30 
6 28 

2"20 

3 5 

4 30 
« 48 

8 5 

2 5 
2 15 

4 5 

5 35 


p.m. 

4 10 

9 i'6 

9 35 

7 30 

5 30 


p.m. 
5 10 

e'so 

7 20 

8 ;(5 

10 5 

11 


p.m. 
6 25 

980 


p.m. 
7 10 

11 40 

12 15 

11 10 

"840 
9 30 
10 40 

12 

7 45 

8 54 

9 35 




(ilo'Ktl'l- 

Cheltenham 

Hereford (Barton) 

AVorcester 

liinmiigliain (Snow-hill) ... 
Wolverhampton (Low Lev.) 





































SPECIAL TRAINS WILL LEAVE FOR STRATFORD-ON-AVON. 



STATIONS. 


Saturday, 
April 23. 


Monday, 

April 25. 


Tuesday, 

Wednesday, 

and Thursday. 

April 26, 27, 28. 


Friday, 
April 29. 


1 & 2 1 & 2 


1 & 21 & 2 


1 & 2 1 & 2 1 & 2jl & 2 


1 & 2 


1 & 2 




12 6; 

1 38 '.'..'.'.'. 

1 45 '.'".'.'. 

11 30 

12 


a.m. noon 

6 30 12 

7 30 12 60 

8 15 1 3S 
...... 9 20 

8 45 10 

9 34 

10 10 


p.m. noon j p.m. 

1 30; 12 0. 1 30 

2 30 12 50: 2 SO 

3 15 1 38; 3 15 

11 1 


noon 
12 

12 511 


p.m. 

1 30 

2 30 

3 15 








7 '."'.'.'. 
6 30 






Vt iirci'ster 




4 25 ' 


6 55 





SPECIAL TRAINS WILL RETURN FROM STRATFORD-ON-AVON. 



STATIONS. 


Saturday, 
April 23. 


Monday, 
April 25. 


Tuesday, 
Wednesday, 
and Thursday, 
April 26, 27, 28. 


Saturday, 
April 30. 


1 & 


1 & 2 


1 &21 &2 1 &2|1 &2.1 &2 


1&2 


1&2 1 &2 


1 & 21 & 2 1 & 2 


STRATFORD. ...dep. 

AVorcester arr. 

Malvern 


p.m. 
10 


p.m. 

11 

12 5 

12 25 
12 7 


p.m.Sp.m. ngt. ! ngt. ngt. 

4 10 6 30 12 12 15 12 30 

| 1 5! 1 

. ... 1 25! | 

7 40 1 27i 

2 20 

5 55 ..:..., 2 2( 

40! 3 ft 

7 40 4 


ngt. 

12 (I 
1 ft 
1 25 


ngt. 
12 15 

i"27 
2 20 


ngt. 
12 30 

2" 30 

3 5 

4 1 


a.m. a.m. a.m. 

4 4 15 4 30 

5 20 

5 40 

1 5 43 

! 6 85 

5 45 ...... 

6 30 1 

7 *> 


Wolverhampton 


Heading 

l'addinsrton 


12 :in 
1 20 






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Advertisements. 



LONDON and NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. 

SHAKESPEARE 
TERCENTENARY CELEBRATION 



STRATFORD-ON-AVON, 

APRIL 33RD TO 3Qt h, 1864. 

Arrangements have been made for the issue of THROUGH TICKETS from the 
undermentioned Stations on the LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY 
to STRATFOED-ON-AVON. 

FARES TO STRATFORD-ON-AVON. 



London, Euston 

Cambridge 

Bedford 

Dunstable 

Luton 

Watford 

Peterboro' 

Wellingboro' 

Northampton ... 

Stamford 

Market Harboro' 

Rugby 

Leicester 

Nuneaton 

Coventry 

Taniworth 

Lichfield 

Kenilworth 



SINGLE 
JOURNEY 



1st 2nd 
CI. CI. 



17 9 13 3 

12 9J 9 6 

14 0^0 3 

14 9,10 9 

16 9 12 3 

14 6 11 

11 o| 8 9 
9 6 7 

12 3j 9 3 
8 3 6 

8 9, 

5 6 4 

4 3 3 

7 6j 5 3 

7 6 5 6 

3 9 2 6 



RETURN 



1st 2nd 
CL CI. 



s. d. 



Passengers from the above-mentioned 



Shrewsbury 

Wellington 

Newport (Salop) ... 

Stafford 

Manchester 

Stockport 

Oldham (Glodwick) 

Staleybridge 

Huddersfield 

Dewsbury 

Leeds 

Bradford 

Halifax 

Warrington 

Liverpool 

Preston 

Lancaster 

Carlisle 

Bangor 

Birkenhead 

Chester 

D ^ ( Waif) 
-n- / Westland \ 
•°°- V Row ; 

Wigan 

Bolton 

Wakefield 



SINGLE 
JOURNEY. 



1st 2nd 
CI. | CL 

ITT. sTd! 
11 10 8 9 

10 II 7 6 

9 9 7 

9 6i 7 

20 6 14 6 

IS 13 6 

20 15 

19 9 15 

22 916 9 
4 ! 17 9 

24 6 18 

24 6 18 

24 618 

18 613 6 

20 2:15 5 

23 0!l7 

7 20 

41 29 9 

28 3 21 6 

20 0|15 3 

17 613 3 

32 325 6 

46 3 34 

20 3!15 

21 316 
23 9 17 9 



1st 2nd 

CL J CL 

TlTsTT 
17 9 13 1 
15 11 1 
14 9 10 9 
14 6 10 6 

31 23 3 

27 3 20 6 
29 9 22 3 

29 9 22 3 
34 3 25 3 
36 26 

36 9 26 

37 9 28 6 
36 9 27 3 

28 0i21 8 

30 7|23 2 

34 9 26 
40 930 3 
61 944 9 
42 6 32 6 
30 3 22 10 
26 3 19 10 

48 938 6 

I 
73 3 53 6 

30 922 6 

32 24 

35 6 26 6 



Passengers from the above-mentioned Sta- 
tions can proceed to Wolverhampton or Bush- 
bury by any Ordinary Train, and there join 
the Great Western Company's Trains for 
Stratford. 



During the TERCENTENARY WEEK, the period of time for which 
Keturn Tickets are available will he extended from Friday, the 

22nd April, to Monday, May 2nd, inclusive. ' 

A Special Tram will leave Leamington (Avenue Station) on the night of Saturday, 23rd April for 
K, "'V v "; r ". * :""'i<try. and Rugby, immediately after the arrival of then IS p.m. special tram f ,,..,, 
, tratf.rd; and a..,., for the same places at 1 2oa.m., on the nights uf the 2.,ih. :a;th, i7i h, an i-JMh, in 
connection with the tram leaving Stratford at 12 >, midnight. There will be m, special train in con- 
nection with the tram from Stratford on the occasion of the i'ancy Ball on Friday night. 
By Order. 



EusioJf Station, March, 1864. 



W. CAWKWELL, 

General Manager. [2? 
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Advertisements. 



The MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY have arranged for the issue of THRO' 
TICKETS during the Month of April, from the undermentioned Stations 

TO STRATFORD-ON-AVON, 

COMMENCING APRIL 11th. 

FARES TO STRATFORD-ON-AVON. 



Lancaster .... 

lngleton 

Cofne 

Skipton 

Bradford 

Leeds 

Nornianton... 

Wakefield 

Doncaster 

Sheffield 

Masboro' 

Chesterfield . 

Derby 

Burton 

Ashby 

Tamworth .... 

Buxton 

Bakewell 

Lincoln 

Newark 

Nottingham . . 



14 



in 3 



Passengers from the above-mentioned 
Stations proceed In Birmingham by Midland 
Railway, and from thence by (Ireat "Western 
Railway. The Through fares do not include 
Conveyance between the Kailway Stations 
liiimingharn. 



Peterhoro'.... 

Stamford 

Melton 

Leicester 

Loughboro' ... 

Hitcliin 

Bedford 

Wellingboro'. 
Kettering 



JOURNEY RETURN 



11 7 



Passengers from the above-mentioned Sta- 
tions proceed to Ifughy by .Midland Railway, 
and from thence to Leamington bv London 
and Nortli-M estem. and there join the I Ireat 
\\ estern ( 'ompaiiy's Trains for Stratford. 



Bristol 

Dursley 

Stonehouse 

Gloucester 

Cheltenham 

Tewkesbury 



20 1 


14 3 


30 2 


15 7 


11 2 


23 5 


14 1 


10 2 


21 2 


10 11 


7 11 


16 5 


9 5 


6 11 


14 2 


9 8 


7 1 


14 7 



Passengers from the above-mentioned Sta- 
tions proceed to Worcester by .Midland Pail- 
way, and there join the (Ireat Western Com- 
pany's Trains for Stratford. 



For the TERCENTENARY FESTIVAL, RETURN TICKETS issued on Friday, 
April 22nd, and intermediate days, will be available for Returning any day up to 
and including May 2nd. 

The GREAT WESTERN COMPANY'S Trains run between Snow Hill Station, 
Birmingham, and Stratford, as under : — 

ORDINARY TRAINS-ON WEEKDAYS ONLY. 



Between Worcester and Stratford, as under: 



a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. [ 
WORT ESTER ... dep. 7.1". b).2n 2.10 6.5 < STRATFORD 
STRATFORD ... arr. S.40 11.45 5. S 7.S 1 WORCESTER 



p.m. p.m. p.m. 





SPECIAL TRAINS. 










STATIONS. 


s'J; 
e 8. 


c'3 




■c-a 


■eg 


BIRMINGHAM (Snow Hill) 

STRATFORD 


dep. 

arr. 


p. m. 
1 45 


a. in. a.m. 
S 45 10 
9 50 11 15 


p. m. 

4 5 

5 10 


p.m. 
7 
S 10 


' 

a.m. 

4 30 

5 43 


P»- 


STRATFORD ■■■:••■ 

BIRMINGHAM (Snow Hill] 


dep. 

. arr. 


p. m. 

11 

12 7 


p.m. night, n.giit 
30 12 15 12 15 

7 40 1 27 | 1 27 






WORCESTER 

STRATFORD 


dep. 

arr. 


1 5 


a.m. 1 p.m. 

10 10 4 25 

11 20 I 5 35 


a 55' 






STRATFORD 

WORCESTER 


dep 


p. m. 
11 


night night 




a. m. 
4 15 


2"3 



Advertisements. 



I MIDLAND RAILWAY— co«"'"«« rf -) 
The LOMDON and NORTH WESTERN and GREAT WESTERN CDM- 
PANY'S Trains run between Rugby and Stratford, as under:— 
ORDINARY TRAINS-ON WEEK DAYS ONLY. 



I 1.3S 7.15 STTCATI-'oUD 
i 4. 5 9.25 I RUGBY 

SPECIAL TRAINS. 



STATIONS. 


i-f 

02 <J 




-s. 1 1 Ki 


si Is 

H I! 


RUGBY clep. 

STRATFORD arr. 


5-Sf 

8 50 


p.m. 1 p.m. 
1 38 1 85 
3 50 :) 50 


p.m. p.m. "|« -35 
1 38 5 1 |S' 3 = - 


STRATFORD dep. 

RUGBY an-. 


p.m. | 

4 10 

6 45 1 


"■".'■ "■'"•' * 10 J E'iff 



D-'-ty, .-tp.' 



JAMCS ALL-PORT, <?•■ 



STRATFORD-ON-AVON FESTIVAL. 



In consequence of the large number of Visitors expected at Stratford-on-Avon 
during the Tercentenary, 

S. STACKAED, of the CLARErTDON HOTEL, Birmingham, 

has taken and fitted up expressly for the occasion, 

THE WHITE LION HOTEL, 

NEXT TO SHAKESPEARE'S HOUSE. 
This being the largest and most convenient Establishment of the kind in Stratford, 
has the facility of accommodating a large number of the Upper and Middle Classes. 

A TABLE D'HOTE IN THE LARGE ASSEMBLY ROOM, 

BEDS. PRIVATE DINING AND SITTING ROOMS. 

For Terms, apply at the White Lion Hotel, Stratford-on-Avon. [58 

JOHN BURTON & SONS, ~ 

(Of Leicester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Derby, and Burfcon-on -Trent), 

SOLE PHOTOGRAPHERS 

TO THE 

SHAKSPERE TE RCENTENARY CELEBRATION. 

STUDIO, ADJOINING THE PAVILION STALL IN THE TOWN HALL. 

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HE FAMOUS FIRST FOLIO (1623) SHAKESPEAEE, 

in fac-simile, by Photo-Lithography, under the supervision of HOWARD 
STAUNTON. This extraordinary and infallible reproduction of the First Folio- 
Shakespeare may be considered more perfect than any one of the most complete 
and almost priceless original 'copies in existence. This excellence ^and accuracy 
are "attributable to the facilities that have been enjoyed of making the Photo- 
Lithographs from three of the finest known copies of the work ; and thus, if a weak or 
imperfect page appeared in one, the same page was found in a more perfect state in 
another of the copies, and worked from in preference. Thus, by the regenerative 
process of Photo-Lithography, the First Folio itself, as near as may be, is put 
within the reach of all classes, and commands a wide support in acknowledgment 
of the enterprise that has turned into such a current this new and invaluable art. 
PRESS NOTICES. 

" The first specimen of their photolithographic facsimile which M essrs. Pay and Son have just 
turned out. under the care of Mr. Howard Staunton, will be regarded by Shakespearian scholars 
with unqualified satisfaction. It is not the original— that is all which can be said against it— but it 
is, we believe, as near the original as it is possible for any fac-simile to be. . . . In so far as we 
have seen, it is a miracle of accuracy that will rejoice the hearts of all true Shakespeai ians. . . 
The fae-simile of these 04 pages cannot hut surprise any i ne who looks into it; and what a treasure 
it is may be estimated from the fact that a copy of the original I'olio has sold for jCiW."— The Times. 

"But the grand condition of a certain text— a trustworthy reproduction of the 'original— is here 
obtained. All other things are of lesser importance. A critic can use this work with undoubting 
faith in its literary accuracy, untroubled by his recollection of the :;iio blunders which were found 
by Upcott in the reprint of 1807. The reproduction is not made from a single copy, but from the 
best pages of the two best copies of the folio known — the one in liridgewater House, the other in the 
Iintish Museum. So far we can warmly congratulate Mr. Staunton and Messrs. Day and Son oa 
their success."— The Athenceum. 

Terms of the Ke-rmblication of the First Folio. 
The "Work, which will consist of about 9(50 folio pages, will be printed on superfine 
toned paper, and be appropriately bound. Price £8 8s. 

Subscribers' Names should he forwarded to the Publisher in the subjoined form: 

To Messrs. DAY and SON,— Place my Name on your List of Subscribers to the 
Photo-Lithographic Fac-simile of the First Folio Edition op Shakespeare's 
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